New Delhi: A Delhi court on July 5 convicted former Communications Minister Sukhram in a telecom scam in which he was accused of causing a loss of about Rs 1.68 crore in connection with awarding a contract to a private firm.

Special judge V K Jain also convicted former deputy director general in the department of telecom Runu Ghosh and managing director of the private firm, M/S Arm ltd P Ramarao.

The quantum of the sentence would be announced later in the day.

Sukhram, Ghosh and Ramarao were all present in the court along with their lawyers.

The case relates to a matter of purchase of marr shared radio system equipment of inferior quality on higher rates from M/S Arm ltd. And causing financial loss of approximately Rs 1.68 crore to the government of India.

The CBI had filed a chargesheet in March 1997 accusing Sukhram and Runu Ghosh of entering into a criminal conspiracy with Ramarao and abusing their official position as public servants.

The accused were booked under Section 120 (b) of IPC and Section 13 (2)(c) r/w 13(1) (d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

PTI