Chandigarh, March 20 -- The CBI court of special judge Alka Malik on Wednesday sentenced a 66-year-old former senior assistant in the office of state transport commissioner to four years imprisonment in a 2017 corruption case. The second accused--Damandeep Singh, 28-- , who worked as a daily wager with the department, was also sentenced to four years of imprisonment.

The duo was convicted last week after they were found guilty under the charges of Sections 120-B of the Indian Penal Code, Sections 7 and 13 (1)(d) (ii) punishable under Section 13 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. The CBI had registered the case on May 5, 2017, on the complaint of Kamal Kumar.

The complainant told the police that he visited the Punjab governme...