Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, February 8

The Chief Judicial Magistrate today awarded two-year rigorous imprisonment to Col BS Goraya (retd) for selling his attached property in Punjab. Judge Akshdeep Mahajan also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 on him. He was convicted under Section 206 (fraudulent removal or concealment of property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in execution) of the IPC on Saturday.In 2011, the court of special CBI judge had ordered initiation of criminal action against the former Army officer and had filed a complaint against him in the court of the then CJM. Proceedings against him under Section 340 of the CrPC were started in the court of the CJM.His property was attached during the investigation of a case under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. The court had directed that he was not entitled to sell his land. However, he sold off one of the attached properties.A case was registered by the premier investigating agency under Sections 13(2) and 13(1) of the Prevention of Corruption Act. It was stated that between January 1987 and August 1990, the accused and some others had acquired properties worth Rs 82.58 lakh. The properties were disproportionate to his known sources of income. The CBI court, during the trail, had also attached the Sector 9 house of the former Army officer. He had several properties in his as well as his family members’ name in Chandigarh, Punjab and Haryana.