Hyderabad, March 29 -- An assistant labour commissioner has been sentenced to two years of imprisonment with a Rs 2 lakh fine in a case related to disproportionate asses. A special judge for CBI cases, Hyderabad, sentenced Thodi Ramesh, then Assistant Labour Commissioner, working at the Commissioner of Labour for his crime.

The court also ordered confiscation (to the state after the expiry of appeal time) of an amount of Rs 27.27 lakh, assessed as the value of disproportionate assets of the accused at the end of the check period.

The CBI had registered the case in 2006 against Thodi Ramesh while he was working as assistant labour commissioner in Hyderabad on allegations that between 2000 and 2006, he was found in possession of assets an...