Madhya Pradesh IAS officer jailed for 5 years, fined Rs 50 lakh

BHOPAL: An IAS officer Sashi Karnavat has been sentenced to 4 years' simple imprisonment and a penalty of Rs 50 lakh by a special court (corruption cases) in Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh on Friday. She was sent to jail from the court. Three others including a couple - Rakesh Sahu, wife Rajeshweri Sahu and a mediator Virendra Shrivastava have also been sentenced to two years' imprisonment with fines of Rs 35 lakh and Rs 5 lakh respectively.

Shahsi's case dates back to year 1999-2000 when she was chief executive officer (CEO) Zila Panchayat in Mandla. The officer allegedly misused her official position to benefit a company for purchase of stationery worth Rs 35 lakh during her tenure in 2000. The order was given in stark defiance of set norms.

EOW's Jabalpur unit registered a case against the officer and others in 2003 on recommendation of the then district collector and chargesheet was filed in 2008.

The EOW Special Judge Rajeev Karmahe held Karnavat, who is currently holding the post of deputy secretary in the sport directorate, guilty under Section 420 (forgery), 120B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC and 13 (1) 13(2)D of Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act, 1988.

Earlier in February 2013, the court had served a notice of contempt on this IAS officer for her alleged remarks against court's proceedings. According to the public prosecutors, during the hearing of case, Sashi Karnavat remarked that the court is working under the pressure of chief ministers' office. The court had served a notice asking why legal action should not be initiated for the remark she made during the hearing of case under prevention of corruption (PC) Act filed against her at Mandla district court in 2000.

The officer had been in controversy for long. In 2012, she had threatened to approach anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare against chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, accusing him of protecting the corrupt. She had accused the state government of harassing her for being a dalit.

Sashji Karnavat worked as deputy secretary in the technical education department in the state. The 53-year old IAS officer had taken up the matter to National Commission for Women apart from approaching Hazare.

She had written to the chief minister in August last year which reads, "The charges were related only to procedural irregularities in a printing job. I went through a departmental inquiry and was cleared, after which I was promoted as an IAS officer and allotted the 1999 batch of the service."

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