Court’s decision – Photo: Social Media Detailed Senior Congress leader and former State Cooperative Minister Bhagwan Singh Yadav has been sentenced to three years imprisonment by a special court in a case related to corruption in the purchase of stationery in the District Cooperative Bank. In this case, two people have been sentenced to three years each while four people have been sentenced to four years each, along with a fine. This case District Cooperative linked to the central bank. 2004 Bhagwan Singh Yadav was the president of this bank. During that time stationery worth Rs 4.5 lakh was purchased. Along with this, greeting cards were printed. The complaint of corruption and irregularities in this case was made by Satish Sharma, a former employee of the bank itself, that forged documents were used in this purchase. The co-operative society from which the purchase has been shown, does not have its work area, nor is there any mention of stationery business in its constitution. Among the accused, apart from Bhagwan Singh Yadav, four accused are employees of the District Cooperative Central Bank and one is the president of a women’s cooperative society. Case was registered against eight people2017 The investigation of the case went on for many years. After investigation, the Economic Offenses Bureau (AEOW) registered a case under the Prevention of Corruption Act against eight people, including the then chairman of the bank Bhagwan Singh Yadav and manager Mukesh Mathur. Two people were arrested in this, while six accused including Yadav got bail. After a long hearing, the MLA, MP special court in this case Charge the accused in this case. During this, the accused requested the court that the accused Ishan Awasthi is a cancer patient, Sheela Gurjar is a woman while other criminals including Bhagwan Singh Yadav are elderly and are facing court proceedings during prolonged trial. That’s why now they should be freed from punishment but the court sentenced them looking at the evidence. 12- imposed a fine of thousand rupeesThe then chairman of Cooperative Bank Bhagwan Singh Yadav and DK Jain were convicted in two separate cases for three- Sentenced to three years. Along with this, 12 a fine of thousand rupees was also imposed. Both these sentences will run concurrently. The accused Ishan Chandra Awasthi, Gajendra Srivastava, Sheela Gurjar and Sanjeev Shukla have been sentenced to three and four years imprisonment respectively in two separate cases and -15 was fined Rs. Court sent four people to jail2004sentencing Later, the advocate of Bhagwan Singh Yadav and DK Jain applied for bail before the court that his party has been sentenced to three years each. In which they can be given bail. The court gave immediate relief by accepting this application. He was released on bail and instructed to get his surety bail within a month, but the remaining four accused were sent to jail after being sentenced to four years each.