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- A 75-year-old former railway clerk, Kali Shankar Dhobi, has been sentenced to one year in prison for accepting a ₹100 bribe in 1995.
- Kali Shankar was caught by the CBI in April 1995 while taking the bribe to parcel a motorcycle from Hatia railway station to Samastipur in Bihar.
- A CBI special court convicted him in 2004, sentencing him to two years in prison and a ₹10,000 fine, which he then challenged in the Jharkhand High Court.
- The High Court upheld the conviction after more than two decades but reduced the sentence to one year, considering Kali Shankar's age, illness, and the long delay in the case, and cancelled his bail with orders to surrender within two months.
- The case shows how a ₹100 bribe led to the loss of a railway job and a prison sentence 31 years later.
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- Whether Kali Shankar surrenders to the court within the two-month deadline set by the High Court.
- Whether Kali Shankar approaches a higher court against the High Court's verdict.
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Named India · Indian Railways · Ranchi · Central Bureau of Investigation · Jharkhand High Court · Kali Shankar Dhobi · Nirmal Kumar · Pradeep Kumar Srivastava
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