Just in: Delhi High Court hands out a four-year sentence in the CWG streetlight scam to five of the seven convicts.


A special CBI court yesterday heard the argument on quantum of sentence against the convicts, including MCD officials, in connection with with the Commonwealth Games street-lighting scam case. The verdict was pronounced today.

The court had on Monday held the accused guilty for conspiring to cause a loss of Rs1.4 crore to the exchequer in the 2010 Commonwealth Games street-lighting scam. This is the first case relating to the CWG scam which has been decided by the court.

During the arguments, the CBI prosecutor Praneet Sharma contended that the convicts had caused a loss of over Rs 1.42 crore to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and maximum punishment of seven years should be awarded to them.

Citing Supreme Court judgments, Sharma argued that a lenient view should not be taken by the court towards convicts especially in corruption cases.

The court had convicted MCD superintendent engineer D.K. Sugan, executive engineer O.P. Mahla,accountant Raju V. and the civic bodys tender clerk Gurcharan Singh, besides private firm Sweska Powertech Engineering Pvt Ltd, its managing director TP Singh and director JP Singh who were illegally favoured in the award of street-lighting contract during the Games.