Hyderabad, October 13: Big Fish Velugubanti Suryanarayana, executive engineer of the fisheries department who was caught with disproportionate assets running into several crores of rupees in 2008, was convicted and sentenced to two years simple imprisonment in a similar but separate case by a special court in Visakhapatnam on Tuesday.
According to S Sreeramachandra Rao, DSP of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Rajahmundry range, Suryanarayana was found to be in possession of assets disproportionate to his known sources of income, to the tune of Rs 18 lakh, in 1998. He was then working as an executive engineer (fisheries), State project unit, in Kakinada.
A chargesheet was accordingly filed in the special court for ACB cases in Visakhapatnam in 2002.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on the convict failing which he will be jailed for six more months. “The court also ordered the confiscation of a house belonging to Suryanarayana at Madhura Nagar in Kakinada. The property will be sold in a public auction and the amount deposited with the government,’’ Sreeramachandra Rao said.
Suryanarayana was found guilty under Section 13 (1) (e) read with 13 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
Meanwhile, the case registered against him in December 2008 in the Vijayawada ACB court is still under trial.
–Agencies