Former Telecom Minister Sukhram sentenced to five year imprisonment on Saturday by Delhi Court after being convicted of taking Rs 3 lakhs as bribe to give a lucrative contract to a Haryana Telecom Ltd(HTL) in 1996.
Special CBI Judge R. P. Pandey also imposed a fine of Rs 4 lakhs on 86-year-old Sukhram, who held the telecom portfolio in P V Narasimha Rao’s Cabinet
The CBI prosecutor said Sukhram will be taken into custody and sent to jail to serve the punishment as the sentence exceeded a three-year jail term and convicts in these cases are not granted statutory bail.
Sukhram was held guilty on Friday under various provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Indian Penal Code(IPC). Various offences under which he has been convicted entail a maximum sentence of 7 years jail term.
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