Jammu: A special CBI court here on Tuesday sentenced two people, including an investigator on the panel of an insurance company, to rigorous imprisonment in a 2007 case related to fake claims.

The special judge for CBI cases in Jammu sentenced Oriental Insurance Company investigator RN Tikku to three years' rigorous imprisonment (RI) with a fine of Rs 30,000 and a claimant, Satish Chander Vasuri, to five years' rigorous imprisonment with a fine of Rs 60,000. Sentenced.

According to the CBI, a case was registered against the accused on April 13, 2007, following allegations that they conspired with others to submit fake insurance claims for housing houses located in Srinagar which were reported to have burnt down. Was. Fire during 1997–98.

It was further alleged that the accused received undue claim of Rs 9,52,913 from the insurance company, although as per the records of Jammu and Kashmir Fire and Emergency Service Command, Srinagar, no fire incident occurred during the relevant period.

After completion of the investigation, a charge sheet was filed in the case on February 18, 2009, the CBI said, adding that the charge sheet was again filed against accused surveyor Subhash Saraf, investigator Tikku, Vasuri and Oriental Insurance development officer Badri Nath Kaul. it was done.

The agency said charges were framed against all the accused on November 16, 2010.

The CBI said that accused Saraf and Kaul died during the trial.

The central agency said the CBI examined 32 witnesses and 97 documents to support the allegations which stood the test of trial in the court.