KOLKATA: East Bengal’s technical director Subhash Bhowmick was sentenced Monday to three years prison by a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court here on bribery charges in a case dating back to 2005.
However, he was granted bail on a personal bond of Rs 100,000 on grounds of his physical ailments.
Bhowmick, then an employee of the anti-evasion department of Central Excise, was caught red handed by CBI sleuths in December 2005 while accepting a bribe of Rs 150,000 from a businessman near Calcutta South Club, in southern Kolkata. At that point of time, besides being the coach of East Bengal, he was also a superintendent of Central Excise.
Bhowmick is a former footballer who represented India, East Bengal and Mohun Bagan.
“We will make an appeal to a higher court against the CBI court order. The CBI court has directed to move the court by September 18,” Bhowmick’s counsel Sanjay Dasgupta told Hindustan Times.
Bhowmick was famous both as a striker in the 1970s and as a coach later on. Apart from playing for the big two clubs of Kolkata, he was a coach of East Bengal, Mohun Bagan, Churchill Brothers, Salgaocar and Mohammedan Sporting.
