India, May 13 -- A sessions court has sentenced Pravin Keshav Singh, an officer with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)'s G-South ward (Worli, Prabhadevi, Mahalaxmi, Lower Parel), to three years of rigorous imprisonment for accepting a bribe of Rs.4 lakh in exchange for issuing a no-dues certificate to an advertisement company.

The verdict was delivered by special sessions judge Satyanarayan Navander on April 30. The court held that the prosecution had proved beyond reasonable doubt that Singh had accepted illegal gratification from De Zens, an outdoor advertising company, which owns hoardings across the city.

According to the prosecution, Singh was responsible for assessing advertisement tax in the Worli area, where De Zens w...