Former Telecom Minister Sukhram

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  "Clear Stand": BJP To Himachal Minister After His Father, Son Quit Party

  With former Union Telecom Minister Sukhram joining the Congress along with his grandson and leaving his son Anil Sharma's political career as a minister in Himachal's BJP government in quandary, the saffron party Monday left it to Sharma to decide whether to continue in the state Cabinet.

• Himachal polls: Is corruption an election issue?

  The campaign fever is peaking in Himachal Pradesh with just days to go before campaigning ends on Friday at 5pm. And in the midst of the election rallies and door-to-door campaigns is Sukhram, the country's former telecom minister who was also convicted on corruption charges in the 1996 telecom scam and sentenced to three years in jail. He's lendin...

• Former Telecom Minister Sukh Ram sent to 3-year judicial custody

  Just two days after his counsel told the Patiala House court that former Telecom Minister Sukh Ram was in a coma, the 86-year-old is being taken to jail in an ambulance.

• Delhi High Court agrees ex-minister Sukhram is guilty

  The Delhi High Court has upheld the conviction of former Union Telecom Minister Sukhram in connection with a case relating to a telecom equipment scam in 1996.

• Former telecom minister Sukhram granted bail

  Former telecom minister Sukhram has been granted bail by the Delhi High Court. He was arrested earlier this month after being convicted for corruption.

• Former Telecom Minister Sukhram gets five years in jail; assaulted outside court

  For the record, he executed the first official telecom scam in the country. Fifteen years on, the law finally caught up with former Telecom Minister Sukhram as a Delhi court today sentenced him to five years of rigorous imprisonment for accepting a bribe of Rs three lakh and showing undue favour to a private firm in 1996.

• Former Telecom Minister Sukhram slapped, kicked by man in court premises

  Former Telecom Minister Sukhram was today slapped and kicked by a man inside the premises of a Delhi court just moments after he was sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment in connection with a corruption case dating back to 1996.

• CBI calls Sukhram a 'habitual offender', seeks maximum punishment for him in Delhi court

  Former Telecom Minister Sukhram, convicted for taking Rs 3 lakhs as bribe to give a lucrative contract to a private firm in 1996, today pleaded for leniency in a Delhi court on grounds of his old age while the CBI called him a "habitual offender" and sought maximum punishment for him.

• Former telecom minister Sukhram guilty of corruption, sentencing today

  Former Telecom Minister Sukhram has been held guilty by a Delhi court of misusing his official position when he was in the P V Narasimha Rao cabinet and giving undue favour to a cable supply company in a 15-year-old case.