Six years after he was caught accepting a bribe of R5,000, an official from the Employees Provident Fund Organisation has been convicted and sentenced to four years’ rigorous imprisonment. Special CBI Judge AS Sayyad also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on Sujit Sinha who worked as a security assistant at EPFO.

As per the CBI’s case, the complainant was Gajanan Athawale, the employee of a private firm in Andheri. After his company shut down in 2014, Athawale sent by post Forms 19 and 10C to the Provident Fund Commissioner in May 2015 for withdrawal of his provident fund, but his request got rejected.