New Delhi: A Delhi court has convicted a woman in a case of theft of 10 Indian Airlines tickets worth Rs 1.8 lakh after she pleaded guilty to being involved in it and sentenced her to detention till rising of the court and a fine of Rs five lakh.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vidya Parkash also directed convict Naiya Relan to defray the expenses incurred by the probe agency in the trial.
On CBI's plea that fine may be imposed upon her it defraying the expenses incurred by the prosecution during the trial, the CMM directed Relan to pay another Rs 4 lakh.
Naiya Relan was involved in stealing and fraudulent refund of ten Indian Airlines manual tickets in 1999.
She voluntarily admitted that during October 1999 ten blank tickets were stolen by a co-accused and the same were filled in by her in fake name and thereafter, refunds were obtained on them.
16/12/12 PTI/ZeeNews