Mohali, April 1 -- A local court has awarded three-year rigorous imprisonment (RI) to two excise and taxation officers (ETOs) for misusing their position to help the owner of M/S Gupta Iron and Steel Industry Mandi Gobindgarh, in fraudulently procuring a Sales Tax Number and Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) for his firm in 2005.

The special vigilance court of Manjot Kaur also awarded three-year-RI to Vikas Mittal, the owner of the firm, for committing forgery.

While the court held Mittal guilty under Sections 465, 468, 471 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the court convicted excise and taxation officers SK Aggarwal and Manjit Singh guilty under Section 13 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act. The accused were booked by P...