Poetic justice was played out in the Madras High Court on Tuesday, with a 64-year-old retired ministerial staff of the police department pleading with the judge

Poetic justice was played out in the Madras High Court on Tuesday, with a 64-year-old retired ministerial staff of the police department pleading with the judge to show mercy towards him after he was convicted in a 15-year-old case for having demanded and received a bribe of ₹2,000 from a retired sub inspector of police in 2008.

Justice P. Velmurugan acceded to the request made by the aged convict, V. Ashok Kumar and imposed the minimum punishment of one year of rigorous imprisonment for one of the two charges, and another six months for the other charge, under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988