Three-year jail term awarded to woman in Bihar

Patna, Nov 24 (UNI)A vigilance court Judge B K Srivastava today sentenced a woman to three years of rigorous imprisonment in a disproportionate assets case and slapped a fine of Rs 5,000.

According to the charges, convict Urmila Yadav and her husband had amassased a wealth of more than Rs ten lakhs, disproportionate of their known income, when the latter was posted as a junior engineer in flood control division Khagaria from 1972 to 1983.

However, her husband S P Yadav died during the trial.

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