A constable allegedly committed suicide after shooting and seriously wounding a police officer at Chhanbila police station on Sagar-Chhatarpur road on Tuesday night. Constable Sukhram Upadhyaya first shot Assistant Police Inspector YK Awasthi with his service gun. ...
07:12 PM, Mar 27, 2013
New Delhi: The bail pleas of former Union Minister Sukhram, whose interim bail is expiring on January 16 in a 1993 telecom scam, and two others will be taken up in the Supreme Court on Monday. A bench headed by Justice P Sathasivam, would also hear the bail plea of the veteran politician's co-accused former bureaucrat Runu Ghosh and Hyderabad-based businessman P Rama Rao. The bench had on January 9...
11:41 AM, Jan 15, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has asked former Union Minister Sukhram, convicted in the 1993 telecom scam, to surrender before the trial court. The Delhi High Court had earlier upheld his conviction on the December 21. The court had also upheld the conviction of two others, Runu Ghosh and P C Rama Rao in the scam. The criminal conspiracy charge against Sukhram had been withdrawn. A trial court had earlier...
01:32 PM, Jan 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday upheld the conviction of Sukhram in a 1996 telecom case. The court also upheld the conviction of two others, Runu Ghosh and P C Rama Rao in the scam. The criminal conspiracy charge against Sukhram has been withdrawn. A trial court had earlier sentenced Sukhram and Rama Rao to 3 years and Runu Ghosh to 2 years imprisonment for defrauding the exchequer...
03:06 PM, Dec 21, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will on Wednesday hear the appeals of former telecom minister Sukhram and two others who were convicted in the 1996 Telecom Scam. The court has already suspended Sukhram's 5-year sentence and granted him bail because of his old age and ailments. Earlier, a Delhi court in November this year imposed a fine of Rs 4 lakh on Sukhram. The court had on Friday found...
12:38 PM, Dec 21, 2011
New Delhi: In a relief for former telecom minister Sukhram who has been sentenced to five years in jail in the 1996 telecom scam, the Delhi High Court granted him bail on a surety of of Rs 10 lakh and on the condition that he cannot leave the country during this period. Sukhram had challenged his conviction and sentencing by a trial court for taking bribe to award a contract...
11:30 AM, Nov 28, 2011
New Delhi: Thursday's attack on Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar is the latest in a series of acts of public retribution. In 2009, Home Minister P Chidambaram was target of a shoe attack; journalist Jarnail Singh claimed he was upset at the Congress decision to allow Jagdish Tytler to contest elections. Singh eventually apologised. Singh said, "I want justice but my way was wrong. I don't want any journalist to...
09:24 PM, Nov 24, 2011
New Delhi: Harvinder Singh, a resident of Rohini in Delhi, slapped Union Minister and NCP Chief Sharad Pawar while shouting slogans against price rise and corruption cases on Thursday. Singh was later arrested by the police and taken to Parliament Street Police Station. When asked why did he attack Pawar, he said he was angry with the Union Agriculture Minister over rising prices and corruption in the government. "The prices...
05:53 PM, Nov 24, 2011
New Delhi: Former Telecom Minister Sukhram, who was on Saturday awarded 5 years' imprisonment in a telecom scam case, will be lodged in Tihar prisons' jail number 1 which also houses A Raja. According to the Deputy Inspector General of Tihar Prisons, RN Sharma, Sukhram, who was convicted in a 1996 telecom scam case, will be kept in jail number 1 of the Tihar Prisons. This jail also houses A...
06:02 PM, Nov 19, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday sentenced former telecom minister Sukhram, convicted in the 1996 telecom scam, to five years in jail. Just minutes after the verdict, Sukhram was attacked by a man in the Rohini courts complex. The incident occurred shortly after Sukhram, who remained out on bail during the 13-year long trial, was taken into custody. Earlier, the court also imposed a fine of Rs 4 lakh...
04:41 PM, Nov 19, 2011
New Delhi: Former Telecom Minister Sukhram, convicted for taking Rs 3 lakhs as bribe to give a lucrative contract to a private firm in 1996, on Saturday 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. 86-year-old Sukhram has been held guilty for misusing his official position during his tenure as Telecom...
12:21 PM, Nov 19, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi Court on Saturday is expected to announce the quantum of punishment for former Telecom Minister Sukhram. Sukhram was on Friday held guilty by a Delhi court of misusing his official position when he was in the PV Narasimha Rao cabinet and giving undue favour to a cable supply company in a 15-year-old case. Special CBI Judge RP Pandey convicted 84-year-old Sukhram under various provisions of Prevention...
07:12 AM, Nov 19, 2011
New Delhi: Former Telecom Minister Sukhram has been held guilty by a Delhi court of misusing his official position when he was in the PV Narasimha Rao cabinet and giving undue favour to a cable supply company in a 15-year-old case. Special CBI Judge RP Pandey convicted 84-year-old Sukhram under various provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act and section 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of Indian Penal Code and is likely...
04:49 PM, Nov 18, 2011
The trial court granted him bail soon after pronouncing the punishment. ...
03:51 PM, Feb 25, 2009
The CBI is seeking the maximum 7-year jail term for the former minister. ...
03:49 PM, Feb 24, 2009
Wads of cash were found stuffed in his mattresses, pillow cases and in toilets. ...
01:24 AM, Feb 21, 2009
The sentence will be pronounced on February 24. ...
12:04 PM, Feb 20, 2009
Chakradharpur MLA Sukhram Oraon is 39 shows constituency it is never too late to learn. ...
09:30 AM, Feb 25, 2007
