Chandigarh, March 2 -- A former sanitary inspector with the Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) has been sentenced to four-year imprisonment in a bribery case from 2019.

The court of additional district and sessions judge Ashwini Kumar also imposed a fine of Rs.20,000 on the convict, Naresh Kumar, who was arrested in 2019.

A vigilance team had caught Kumar red-handed on August 17, 2019, accepting a Rs.2,500 bribe from Ajay, an MC horticulture wing employee.

Ajay, previously in the medical officer health (MOH) wing, had complained that Kumar demanded the bribe for his transfer back to the wing.

The complainant worked on contract basis in the civic body, while Kumar was a permanent employee. Ajay lodged a complaint with the vigilance ...