New Delhi, Apr 2 A Delhi court on Thursday sentenced Madhya Pradesh Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti and a former bank employee to three years' imprisonment in a cheating case involving the forging of bank records to obtain illegal interest payments between 1998 and 2011.
Special Judge Dig Vinay Singh also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on Bharti and former cashier Raghuvir Sharan Prajapati.
A detailed order is awaited.
The duo was convicted on Wednesday for the offences of criminal conspiracy, cheating, forgery of a valuable security, forgery for cheating and using a forged document as genuine.