chandigarh central bureau of investigations cbis special court here on saturday awarded threeyear rigorous imprisonment to the then official liquidator of the ministry of company affairs ashish vajpai in a corruption case this case dates back to 2006 and chargesheet was filed in this case in 2008 vajpai who was attached with the punjab and haryana high court and himachal high court has been accused of wrongly using government money and for accumulating income and assets worth nearly rs 15 crore through unscrupulous means by misusing his official position besides the jail term court has also slapped a fine of rs 50000 on the accused he has been accused of conspiring with private builders and real estate agents to make money through unscrupulous means by circumventing the laid down rules of the court and law earlier in 2010 he was sentenced to twoyear jail by the cbi special court in another corruption case and he was dismissed from his services according to cbi officials vajpai had joined as junior technical assistant in the registrar of companies in 1989 later he got promotions and was transferred to chandigarh during september 1989 to may 2006 vajpai saved rs 147 crore which was around 354 times more than his known sources of income this money was recovered during the raids at his house in sector 27 here and from his various bank accounts that were opened in different states of the country said a cbi official during the probe cbi sleuths had also recovered many objectionable property documents from vajpais bank lockers however vajpai had also applied for bail in the court which he was granted for 60 days on the bail bond of rs 30000