Former Samata Party President Jaya Jaitley and two others were on Thursday sentenced to four years in prison by a special court in Delhi in connection with a corruption case related to a 2001 defence deal, a lawyer said.
Special CBI Judge Virender Bhat directed the three convicts -- Jaitley, her former party colleague Gopal Pacherwal and Major General (retired) SP Murgai -- to surrender before it by 5 pm today and also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh each, said advocate Vikram Panwar, the lawyer for of one of the convicts.
On July 21, the court had convicted Jaitly, her erstwhile party colleague Gopal Pacherwal and retired Major General SP Murgai under charges of dealing with criminal conspiracy of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 9 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.ANI
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