Chandigarh, April 16 -- A head constable found guilty in a 2016 graft case has been sentenced to four years in prison by a special CBI court.

The court of special CBI judge Alka Malik also imposed a fine of Rs.20,000 on Raj Kumar, who was convicted under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

While pronouncing the verdict, the court ruled that the facts of the instant case and the manner in which the convict had very clandestinely demanded and accepted the bribe from the complainant, who himself was a public servant, goes to establish his intention.

"It shall be absolutely relevant to mention here that corruption by public servants has reached such a monstrous stage that the institutions which have been created for the p...