Graft case: HC relief for official

Aurangabad: The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay high court recently acquitted an official from the Jalgaon health department from charges of accepting bribe in 2012.
The Jalgaon sessions court had convicted Devidas Bhaskar for accepting money from a complainant to clear medical bills. Bhaskar was sentenced to two-year simple imprisonment under two sections of the ACB Act in 2015.
At the time, Bhaskar, a resident of Jalgaon, was serving as assistant superintendent at the civil hospital.The complainant was Deepak Wadnere, brother of one Mangala Hari Sonar, who was employed as security guard with district prison at Jalgaon. She had undergone a heart surgery and had been treated for other ailments for over a year and had resumed her duty on February 22, 2012. An amount of Rs 5,04,051 was spent on her treatment. She was entitled to medical reimbursement and, therefore, presented her medical bills on May 15, 2012, to the district superintendent of jail, Jalgaon. Those bills were sent to the civil hospital in Jalgaon for verification and sanction.