Solar rip-off accused Saritha Nair will get 6 years imprisonment in dishonest case
A court docket right here on Tuesday sentenced con girl Saritha S Nair to 6 years rigorous imprisonment in a dishonest case associated to the photo voltaic panel rip-off that rocked Kerala through the earlier Congress-led UDF rule.
Saritha Nair was the second accused within the case associated to the notorious rip-off.
Judicial First Class Magistrate-III Ok Nimmi acquitted the third accused B Manimon, whereas the decision of Biju Radhakrishnan, the primary accused on this case, was put onhold for pronouncement later as he hadapplied for depart for being beneath quarantine.
The court docket awarded the imprisonment in 4 completely different crimes together with dishonest.
A fantastic of Rs 10000 has been pronounced in 4 crimes, totalling Rs 40,000.
Acting on a warrant issued by the court docket, Saritha was arrested from her residence in Thiruvananthapuram by the investigating officer final week and remanded to judicial custody after being delivered to Kozhikode.
The warrant was issued towards her as she failed to seem within the court docket.
According to a grievance filed by Kozhikode native Abdul Majeed with the police in 2012, the 2 accused — Nair and Biju Radhakrishnan had taken Rs 42.70 lakhs from him for offering franchise of their firm apart from putting in photo voltaic panels in his workplace and home.
But, neither was the contract executed nor the cash refunded, the complainant said.
The trial court docket was to ship the judgment in February however because the accused didn’t flip up, the pronouncement needed to be postponed.
Biju Radhakrishanan and Saritha Nair are the primary and second accused respectively within the case, the trial of which started on January 25, 2018.
Saritha S Nair and her confederate Biju Radhakrishnan had swindled many individuals of crores of rupees promising to put in photo voltaic panels and providing franchise and jobs of their firm, Team Solar Renewable Energy Solutions Company.