An Indian court sentenced a 75-year-old doctor to jail for accepting half a dollar as a bribe nearly a quarter of a century ago, officials said Wednesday.
India's federal police caught Balgovind Prasad accepting 25 rupees (51 cents) from a sweeper in 1985 for issuing a fake medical certificate, police said.
The case dragged on for years and Prasad was convicted in 1992 and given a one-year jail term. He was freed as he appealed the sentence.
Tuesday, a higher court in India's eastern state of Bihar state reduced the one-year term to three months, saying the bribe amount was too small, but directed the police to take Prasad into custody as he was guilty of the crime.
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Man, are they strict
As the saying goes, if you do the crime, you've got to do the time, but this is pretty damn ridiculous:
I wonder, with all the time and lawyers and judges involved in this case since 1985, how many thousands of dollars has this cost?
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