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U. G. Barad Laddoos could have saved babus from jail Author: TNN Publication: The Times of India Date: May 27, 2012 URL: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Laddoos-could-have-saved-babus-from -jail/articleshow/13540564.cms Two Rajasthan health service officials must be regretting their greed in demanding an extra Rs 25 instead of 2 kg of laddoos which a patient's relative was offering for issuing a discharge certificate from a hospital in 1994. For their avarice they would now serve six months in prison as the Supreme Court on Friday upheld their conviction under the Prevention of Corruption Act. However, the court took pity on the health condition of the convicts and reduced their sentence to 1 year from 2 years awarded by the trial court. During the trial, they had served six months in prison. Now they would be taken back to prison to serve remaining sentence. Rafiq's father was treated as Shahadat Hospital, Tonk, for urinary track infection from October 24, 1994 to November 12, 1994. He offered Rs 75 and two kilograms of laddoos to the health official, Mukut Bihari and Kalyan Lal, for issuance of a discharge certificate. But, the health officials declined to accept the laddoos and told him to give Rs 100. Rafiq informed the anti-corruption department, which laid a trap and arrested the two officials accepting the bribe amount of Rs 100. The quantum of money and long period of trial did not help the accused in convincing the apex court to take a lenient view of their corrupt action.