For accepting Rs 100 bribe in 1991, a 82-year old gets 1-year jail term in 2022

A Lucknow court sends an 82-year-old man for taking Rs 100 way back in 1991.

New Delhi, Feb 06: An 82-year-old man might have never imagined that he would be punished three decades after taking a bribe of Rs 100.

A case has come to light where a retired railway employee named Ram Narayan Verma has been sent to one year in prison by a Lucknow court for taking Rs 100 in 1991, according to a report in Bar and Bench.

Ram Narayan Verma pleaded before the court to give him lesser punishment considering his old age and the incident occurred 32 years ago. However, Special Judge Ajai Vikram Singh refused to be show leniency taking the interest of the aggrieved party and the effect on society. The court observed that it send a wrong message to the society.

It has to be noted that the convict had already spent two days in prison and was out on bail.

In 1992, the FIR was filed against Verma by a retired loco driver of Northern Railways named Ram Kumar Tiwari. According to him, the convict demanded Rs 150 for conducting a medical test to compute his pension. He paid Rs 50 and told him that he would pay Rs 100 a few days later.

Tiwari then filed a complaint following which the CBI caught him red-handed while taking bribe of Rs 100.

Plea seeking culling of birds, animals creating 'nuisance' in Lucknow rejected by HC

Meanwhile,The Allahabad High Court has declined to issue a direction to the Lucknow Municipal Corporation to kill birds and animals that were claimed to have become vermin and been creating "nuisance" in the Uttar Pradesh capital, PTI reported.

A bench of Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Subhash Vidyarthi passed the order on Saturday on a PIL moved by lawyer Manoj Dubey.

Dismissing the plea, the Lucknow bench of the high court said such a direction cannot be issued by the court as there is no provision which obliges the civic body to kill "innocent animals".