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Ex-deputy tahsildar gets 8 years jail for bribe in Kollam
The Story in Brief
The Kollam Vigilance Court on Saturday, 31 October 2026 sentenced a former deputy tahsildar of Kunnathur taluk to eight years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 1 lakh in a bribery case from 2014. The court found S Babu (63), a native of Karunagappally, guilty of accepting bribes totalling Rs 10,000 to allow illegal laterite stone quarrying and then to release a seized stone-cutting machine. The Kollam Vigilance Unit caught him red-handed while accepting the final payment of Rs 5,000.
Judge Dr Mohit C S delivered the verdict. Public prosecutors P S Divya and Siju Rajan appeared for the prosecution. The case was initially registered by former Deputy Superintendent of Police Rex Bobby Aravin, investigated by DSP R Jayashankar and completed by DSP K Ashok Kumar, who filed the chargesheet.
Indian Opinion Analysis
All three outlets reported the Kollam court sentence with straight factual framing, each leading with the eight-year term. Onmanorama gave the most detailed chronology of the bribe payments, while Times of India focused on the Rs 5,000 final bribe. The Hindu reported a separate Palakkad misappropriation case in the same article. The coverage is uniform in its neutral reporting of the verdict and investigation. No source adopted a pro-government or critical stance. The key figure to watch is the concurrent sentence served by the former officer.
Coverage: 3 sources, 3 neutral
Sources (3): onmanorama.com (neutral report), thehindu.com (neutral report), timesofindia.indiatimes.com (neutral report)
This brief was synthesised by AI from the 3 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Methodology and corrections.
