Cold winter in Tihar for Sukhram as HC upholds conviction

December 21, 2011 15:01

Just in: The Delhi High Court has upheld the conviction of former union minister Sukhram and two others in 1996 telecom scam.

Sukhram, who had held the telecom portfolio in P V Narasimha Rao's cabinet, was convicted on November 17 in a cable contract case. He was handed a five-year jail term by the Special CBI judge R P Pandey on November 19 and is currently in jail.

Sukhram had challenged his conviction and sentencing by a trial court (for taking a bribe to award a contract to a telecom firm in 1996). Sukhram (86) had filed a plea for suspension of the sentence on health grounds and old age for which the court also sought his medical report.

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