Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited (BESCOM) Corporate Office at K R Circle in Bengaluru.
Credit: DH Photo/ S K Dinesh
Bengaluru: A special court has convicted retired Bescom Assistant Executive Engineer C Ramalingaiah in a disproportionate assets case.
The case, filed by the Lokayukta Police, had accused the engineer of amassing assets Rs 1.06 crore disproportionate to his known sources of income.
The court has now imposed a three year imprisonment and levied a fine of Rs 1 crore. In case the convict fails to pay the fine, the court has ordered that he has to serve an additional four months of simple imprisonment.
Ramalingaiah, who joined the Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL) as a junior engineer in 1984, later moved on to work with Bescom. He was also deputed as an engineer to the public works department.
In September 2011, the Lokayukta police searched his properties and filed a disproportionate case against him.