Windmill scam: Saritha Nair, aide gets 3 year jail term

Coimbatore, Oct 31 (UNI) A Judicial Magistrate court in Tamil Nadu on Thursday sentenced Saritha S Nair, the prime accused in multi-crore solar scam in Kerala, and her aide to three years imprisonment for cheating investors in a windmill scam in Coimbatore.

Sixth Judicial Magistrate K.R.Kannan slapped a fine of Rs 10,000 on Saritha and C Ravi, Manager of her Coimbatore office and ordered that they would have to serve jail term of an additional 9 months if they failed to pay the penalty.

The court however reserved the sentence of her former husband and partner Biju Radhakrishnan, who was also accused in the scam.