5-Year Jail For Judge's Ex Staff For Extortion, Threat To Kill Her Children: Court
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While awarding the jail term to Shiv Shankar Parsad Sinha, the court in Delhi said the incident affected the stream of justice and created a trust deficit among judges and support staff.
A man has been sentenced to a five-year jail term for extorting money from a judge, in whose court he had worked as an assistant by threatening to kill her two children in 2007.
While awarding the jail term to Shiv Shankar Parsad Sinha, the court in Delhi said the incident affected the stream of justice and created a trust deficit among judges and support staff.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Pankaj Sharma said that before the incident, the convict, Shiv Shankar Parsad Sinha, had worked as an assistant ahlmad in the complainant Kiran Basal's court when she was a civil judge.
"Obviously, during that time he became aware of her family members and her vulnerabilities," the court said, noting, "The convict acted like an obdurate criminal by continuously texting threatening messages to the victim for extortion." Sinha had demanded Rs 4 lakh from the complainant, then posted as a metropolitan magistrate in Tis Hazari District Court Complex, and had threatened to kill her children if the money was not paid. In a text message, the convict had threatened to kill Basal's entire family.
