In a case involving anomalies in the distribution of a coal block in Chhattisgarh, a city court on Wednesday sentenced former Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Darda to four years in prison. He was then taken into custody and housed in central cell number 2 at Tihar Prison.
After completing all the procedures, including the medical examination, Darda was placed in ward number 3 of central prison number 2, according to a senior jail official.
Earlier that day, the court handed down a four-year prison term in the case against Darda, his son Devender Darda, and entrepreneur Manoj Kumar Jayaswal, concluding that the defendants gained the block by “cheating” the Center.
The court’s ruling, which also said that the prosecution is correct to claim that the damage to the country was significant, resulted in the immediate detention of all three prisoners.
“Convicts Manoj Kumar Jayaswal, Vijay Darda, and Devender Darda are taken into custody and be sent to jail to serve the sentence,” the court said.
In the same case, Special Judge Sanjay Bansal sentenced former coal secretary H C Gupta, two former senior public employees, K S Kropha and K C Samria, to three years in prison.
But the court did allow the three prisoners bail so they may appeal their conviction and sentence to the supreme court.