AIZAWL: The six folks, together with Mizoram CM Zoramthanga’s brother, convicted on Tuesday in reference to bogus compensation receipts for land acquired for a hydroelectric energy plant had been sentenced on Wednesday to at least one 12 months’s imprisonment. The particular court docket (Prevention of Corruption Act) in Aizawl additionally fined them Rs 20 lakh every and despatched them to the central jail.
The six are C Vanlalchhuana, the youthful brother of Zoramthanga, Saiaithanga, C Rokhumi, Lalduhawma and PC Lalthazovi and KLalrawna.
All six had been sentenced underneath IPC Sections 420 and 120B to endure one 12 months of imprisonment with a superb of Rs 10 lakh every and likewise underneath IPC Sections 467, 468, 471 and 120B to endure a 12 months’s imprisonment with a superb of Rs 10 lakh every.
They had been discovered responsible of receiving compensation in a conspiracy involving falsifying land passes, making pretend village council land passes and dishonest the authorities. They acquired compensation operating into lakhs in reference to acquisition of lands submerged as a consequence of building of the 60MW Tuirial hydroelectric undertaking undertaken by Northeast Electric Power Corporation Ltd, the choose stated.