Jharkhand High Court upholds conviction of 75-year-old ex-railway clerk in ₹100 bribe case
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The Jharkhand High Court recently upheld the conviction of a 75-year-old former railway parcel clerk for accepting a ₹100 bribe from a man seeking to transport his motorcycle from Hatia to Samastipur in 1995 [Kali Shankar Dhobi v. State of Jharkhand].Justice Pradeep Kumar Srivastava, however, reduced the sentence of Kali Shankar Dhobi, taking into account his age, the 31-year pendency of the case and the fact that he had already been dismissed from service.The Court rejected Dhobi's argument tha