Kolkata June 25 (IANS) The special CBI court here on Monday sentenced former Indian footballer and East Bengal football club s Technical Director Subhash Bhowmick to three years imprisonment after convicting him in a 2005 bribery case.
The court also slapped a fine of Rs 2 lakh on Bhowmick but granted him bail as he was sick.
Bhowmick the then employee of the Anti-Evasion Department of Central Excise was caught red handed by the Central Bureau of Investigation sleuths in December 2005 while accepting a bribe of Rs 150 000 from a businessman near Calcutta South Club in southern Kolkata.
Acting on a complaint from the businessman that Bhowmick had demanded a bribe for favouring him in connection with a raid on November 30 the CBI sleuths had laid a trap for Bhowmick and arrested him.
He was consequently sent to CBI custody.

--IANS mgr/vd