New Delhi: A special CBI court in Patna on Wednesday convicted two officers of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) for misappropriating seized goods worth Rs 24 lakh and sentenced them to one year of rigorous imprisonment (RI).

The court found Vijay Kumar Jha, then Assistant Commandant, and Apurva Sarkar, then Sub-Inspector, both of the 19th Battalion, SSB, Bathnaha in Bihar's Forbesganj, guilty of conspiring to misappropriate a truckload of betel nuts that had been seized during operations.

Both officers were also directed to pay a fine of Rs 50,000 each.

The case dates back to 2009 when the CBI, acting on source information, registered a case alleging that Anand Kumar, then Deputy Commandant of the same battalion, along with Jha, Sarkar and others, entered into a criminal conspiracy to frau

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