Man jailed for taking 50 cents 24 years ago

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PATNA, India (Reuters) - 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.

"The case was also dragging and the bribe money was too small, so Prasad thought he would get a reprieve from the court," prosecution lawyer Vipin Kumar Sinha told reporters after the verdict. "But all the charges has been proved against him."

Indian justice is often delivered at a glacial pace and a case can drag for decades with endless hearings.

(Writing by Bappa Majumdar; Editing by Alistair Scrutton and Sugita Katyal)



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Bird flu has spread to 13 of West Bengal’s 19 districts, with samples of dead chickens testing positive in two new districts

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Kolkata: Veterinary staff in eastern India are capturing chickens in night-time raids on backyards of homes to surprise villagers unwilling to part with their poultry even as bird flu spreads to new districts.
Bird flu has spread to 13 of West Bengal’s 19 districts, with samples of dead chickens testing positive in two new districts, officials said on Monday.
Precautionary measures: Health workers collect chickens for culling in Dumurdaha village, about 100km north of Kolkata.Experts fear the H5N1 strain could mutate into a form easily transmitted from person to person, leading to a pandemic, but as yet, there have been no reported human infections in the country.
“It is very difficult to contain the virus among backyard poultry as villagers hide their chickens and even smuggle them to homes of distant relatives,” said Anisur Rahaman, the state’s animal resources minister.
Officials said they were worried about the disease spreading to Kolkata, after bird flu hit the South 24 Parganas district on Sunday, only 20km away from the city.
Surveillance was in place to stop infected poultry from being smuggled into one of India’s biggest cities, they said.
Authorities also used loudspeakers and distributed leaflets in villages, urging people to hand over poultry to culling teams.
Villagers say government compensation of $1 (Rs39.4) a bird was not enough. “It’s not just money, it is such a sentimental issue as villagers keep ducks and chickens as pets and also have different names to call them,” Nazrul Islam of the West Bengal Poultry Association said.
West Bengal has promised to pay more money to villagers, admitting the virus could spread further if birds were not culled quickly.
The World Health Organization has said it is India’s most serious outbreak of bird flu. More than 1.5 million birds have already been culled since the deadly H5N1 virus hit the state earlier this month.
Another half a million chickens and ducks will be slaughtered in the next few days, officials said. The government says laboratory tests have confirmed the H5N1 strain in at least two of West Bengal’s 19 districts, but said reports from 11 other districts were likely to be the same.
Authorities said the virus could have come from neighbouring Bangladesh, also struggling to contain an outbreak of bird flu. Most countries and all Indian states have banned poultry products from West Bengal.


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Bird flu has spread to 13 of West Bengal’s 19 districts, with samples of dead chickens testing positive in two new districts

Bappa Majumdar/ Reuters

Kolkata: Veterinary staff in eastern India are capturing chickens in night-time raids on backyards of homes to surprise villagers unwilling to part with their poultry even as bird flu spreads to new districts.
Bird flu has spread to 13 of West Bengal’s 19 districts, with samples of dead chickens testing positive in two new districts, officials said on Monday.
Precautionary measures: Health workers collect chickens for culling in Dumurdaha village, about 100km north of Kolkata.Experts fear the H5N1 strain could mutate into a form easily transmitted from person to person, leading to a pandemic, but as yet, there have been no reported human infections in the country.
“It is very difficult to contain the virus among backyard poultry as villagers hide their chickens and even smuggle them to homes of distant relatives,” said Anisur Rahaman, the state’s animal resources minister.
Officials said they were worried about the disease spreading to Kolkata, after bird flu hit the South 24 Parganas district on Sunday, only 20km away from the city.
Surveillance was in place to stop infected poultry from being smuggled into one of India’s biggest cities, they said.
Authorities also used loudspeakers and distributed leaflets in villages, urging people to hand over poultry to culling teams.
Villagers say government compensation of $1 (Rs39.4) a bird was not enough. “It’s not just money, it is such a sentimental issue as villagers keep ducks and chickens as pets and also have different names to call them,” Nazrul Islam of the West Bengal Poultry Association said.
West Bengal has promised to pay more money to villagers, admitting the virus could spread further if birds were not culled quickly.
The World Health Organization has said it is India’s most serious outbreak of bird flu. More than 1.5 million birds have already been culled since the deadly H5N1 virus hit the state earlier this month.
Another half a million chickens and ducks will be slaughtered in the next few days, officials said. The government says laboratory tests have confirmed the H5N1 strain in at least two of West Bengal’s 19 districts, but said reports from 11 other districts were likely to be the same.
Authorities said the virus could have come from neighbouring Bangladesh, also struggling to contain an outbreak of bird flu. Most countries and all Indian states have banned poultry products from West Bengal.


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