The bail pleas of former Union Minister Sukh Ram, whose interim bail is to expire on January 16 in a 1993 Telecom scam case, and two others will be taken up in the Supreme Court tomorrow.
A bench headed by Justice P Sathasivam would also hear the bail pleas of the co-accused former bereaucrat Runnu Ghosh and Hydrebad-based businessman P Rama Rao.
The bench had on January 9 granted bail to Sukh Ram, who had surrendered before the Trial Court to serve his three year sentence in prison in the scam case.
Ghosh and Rao were also granted bail by the Supreme Court till January 16.
Earlier on December 21, 2011, the Delhi High Court had upheld the lower court's 2002 judgement holding Sukh Ram, Ghosh and Rao being part of a criminal conspiracy to defraud the state exchequer by awarding a telecom equipment supply contract to Hydrebad's Advanced Radio Masts which had supplied inferior goods at a higher rate to the Department of Telecom.
Sukh Ram was the Telecom Minister between January 18, 1993 and May 16, 199, in the Narasimha Rao government.
The CBI had filed the chargesheet in March 1997, accusing Sukh Ram and Ghosh of enetering into a criminal conspiracy with Rao.
Subsequent to the registration of various cases, the CBI in the year 1996 had seized Rs. 3.6 crore in cash which was concealed in bags and suitcases from Sukh Ram's residence.
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