Chennai, April 16 -- The XIVth Special Additional Court for CBI cases, Chennai has sentenced two accused including including a former Project Director of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) in a bribery case.

The court also imposed a total fine of Rs 40,000 on H. Bhima Simha Hindupur, then Project Director(PD) of NHAI, Project Implementation Unit (PIU), Villupuram and J.Saravanan, then Personal Assistant (appointed through a contractor) to PD.

CBI had registered the case on October 27, 2017 against Bhima Simha Hindupur based on a written complaint alleging that he demanded an undue advantage of Rs. 2 lakh to accord permission for running a restaurant one National Highways at Villupuram.

It was also alleged that Bhima ...