New Delhi, Dec 11, 2025

A special CBI court in Patna on Thursday convicted and sentenced a former executive engineer and a transporter for their roles in a nearly three-decade-old bitumen scam that caused significant losses to the Bihar government.

The case, originally lodged in 1996, involved large-scale misappropriation of bulk bitumen meant for road construction work.

According to the CBI, the court has sentenced Baikunth Nath Sharma, then Executive Engineer of the Road Construction Division (RCD) in Biharsharif, to one year of rigorous imprisonment along with a fine of Rs 35,000.

Suresh Kumar Gupta, a private transporter associated with M/s Tirupati Transport Agency, has been handed three years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 1.5 lakh.

The case was initially registered a

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