Panchkula, June 17 -- A local court has sentenced a Hisar resident to three-year imprisonment for defrauding a family of around Rs.23 lakh with a promise of securing government jobs to its members. The convict, Sunder Singh, hailing from Bagla village in Hisar, has also been fined Rs.1,000 by the court of additional chief judicial magistrate, presided over by Kirti Vashista.

The FIR was registered at the Sector 5 police station on August 21, 2017 for cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy on the complaint of Mukesh Kumar. The complainant stated that a JBT teacher, Bhajan Lal Saini, introduced him to Sunder Singh in May 2016 who promised government jobs for Mukesh's family members. The complainant said the accused promised patwari's jo...