New Delhi: Two government officials have been sentenced to two years in jail by a Delhi court for demanding and accepting bribe from a person to mutate in his name a plot of farming land, owned by him but registered in his brother`s name.

Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal sentenced Lal Chand, a revenue collection official (tehsildar), posted at sub-divisional magistrate`s office at Kalakji and one Ashok Kumar Rajput, working earlier as an upper division clerk under him, to two years in jail for demanding and accepting bribe.
The duo were caught red-handed by the Anti-Corruption Branch sleuths, while accepting the bribe from complainant Shivraj.
In his complaint to Delhi government`s ACB, Shivraj had said that he had entered into a land purchase pact with one Ram Chander, who owned 12 bighas of land, which, however, was in name of his brother. To sell the land to him, Ram Chander needed the land to get mutated in his name, but the tehsildar and the clerk had been demanding a bribe of Rs 20,000 from them to get the land mutated in name of Ram Chander to eanble him sell it, said Shivraj. He added that the tehsildar and the clerk were not mutating the land in Ram Chander`s name and demanding bribe for it despite a standing order by the Kalakji SDM to do so.
On Shivraj`s complaint, the Anti-Corruption Branch laid a trap and caught Lal Chand and Rajput red-handed.
PTI