Mr. Fateh Deep Singh, J.:- Four accused namely Sukhdev Raj, Assistant Grade-I (for short ‘AG(I)’); Manjit Singh, Assistant Manager – Depot (for short ‘AM(D)’) and Om Parkash, Assistant Grade-I (for short ‘AG(I)’) all officials of the Food Corporation of India (FCI), the latter having died during the trial, were jointly tried along with Jaipal Midha and Namdev both private Millers from M/s Friends Rice and General Mills and M/s Arora Rice and General Mills respectively in this criminal case got registered by way of RC No.16 of 10.05.2003 and all of them who happens to be the present appellants stood convicted vide common judgment dated 14.05.2009 by the Court of learned Special Judge, CBI, Punjab, Patiala under Sections 120B/420/477A IPC and Section 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act and were sentenced as under: