CBSE employee gets one year sentence for abusing SC labourer

New Delhi, May 26 (UNI) A city court today sentenced a CBSE employee to imprisonment of one year for abusing an ad hoc labourer belonging to the Scheduled Caste (SC) in 1994.

Additional sessions judge Rajneesh Kumar, who is also a Special judge under the SC/ST Act, sentenced the accused Vijyendra Singh, who had, in 1994, abused the labourer, to one year imprisonment under Sections 3 (1) part 10, Section 3 (2) and Section 6 of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

The judge also imposed a fine of Rs 2,000 on the convict.

Another accused in the case S K Sharma, an Assistant Engineer with the CBSE at the time of the incident, has already been let off by the Delhi High Court which, on August 8, 2000, quashed the case against him after finding it prima facie found no evidence against him.

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