more-inAn anti-corruption court here on Tuesday convicted two top health service officials of big ticket corruption in the procurement of hepatitis-B vaccine for child immunisation during the 2002-03 period. The bench, presided by Vigilance Inquiry Commissioner and Special Judge A. Baharudeen, sentenced the officials, former directors V.K. If they defaulted on the payment of the penalty, they would have to serve an additional year in prison. Investigators later found that the firms were not pharmaceutical drug manufacturers as made out by the suspect officials in files. Instead, the firms contracted by the convicts were actually fly-by-night intermediaries who sought to make a sizeable cut from the multi-crore deal.

Source: The Hindu May 02, 2017 17:59 UTC