Chandigarh, May 4 -- Chastising him for showing utmost disregard to the principles of honesty and fair play, expected from a public servant, a special CBI court has sentenced an inspector of the investigating agency to five years in jail in a 2016 case of corruption and extortion.

Threatening the officials of a city-based pharmaceutical company of false implication in a case, the convict, Ravinder Kumar Singla, had extorted a Honda City from the firm, inviting strong rebuke from the court.

"He was daring enough to force them to transfer its (car's) ownership in his name or in his relative's name. Though, at that juncture, the officials of the complainant company refused to succumb to his pressure and initiated the criminal law into moti...