NEW DELHI: A trial court has sentenced two men to a one-year jail term for offering bribe of Rs 6 lakh to BJP MLA Karan Singh Tanwar 18 years ago for securing allotment of three shops in a market in the capital.

Also imposing a fine of Rs one lakh each on the two convicts, special CBI judge Rajiv Mehra held Delhi residents Jasbir Singh Chawla and Shoeb Ahmed guilty of criminal conspiracy and abetting the offence of a public servant taking illegal gratification for his official work in 1995. It, however, allowed their plea for suspension of sentence for a month to file an appeal in superior court.

It said in case they do not appeal till September 30, they will surrender before the court on October 1 to serve the sentence of one year rigorous imprisonment.

According to CBI, 58-year-old Chawla and 45-year-old Ahmed in pursuance of their conspiracy were found offering bribe of Rs six lakh to MLA Tanwar for allotment of three shops.

The accused had told Tanwar, complainant in the case, that they would pay him Rs two lakh cash and rest Rs four lakh would be given to him after allotment. The case was registered in October 1995 by the CBI on a complaint of Tanwar, who was also an administrator of Fish and Poultry Market Committee in Jama Masjid here at that time.

The complaint said Chawla had submitted four applications on behalf of different parties and he was offering a bribe of Rs six lakh for the allotment of at least three shops against three applications received by Kanwar.

