New Delhi, Jan 6 (ANI): Former Telecom Minister Sukhram, convicted in connection with the 1996 telecom equipment purchase scam, has slipped into a state of coma.
Sukhram's counsel told this to a Delhi Court today which deferred the matter till tomorrow.
Sukhram was directed by the Supreme Court to surrender before the trial court yesterday but he avoided the same citing medical reasons. he 1996 telecom scam involved award of a contract to a Hyderabad firm for supplying telecom equipment to government at exorbitant rates.
Sukhram, 86, a cabinet colleague of Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao, was held guilty under various provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Indian Penal Code.
The CBI, in its charge sheet filed in 1998, had accused Sukhram of showing undue favour in awarding the cable supply contract to HTL. Sukhram had been put on trial along with HTL chairman Devinder Singh Choudhary who died during the trial.
In 2009, Sukhram had been held guilty of possessing disproportionate assets worth Rs. 4.25 crore.
In 2002, he was awarded a three-year jail term under the Prevention of Corruption Act in a separate case relating to equipment supply for causing a loss of Rs. 1.66 crore to the state exchequer. (ANI)
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