Sukhram Convicted

• 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...

• 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.

• 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.