New Delhi: Thirteen years after the case began, Runu Ghosh, former deputy director general in the telecom ministry, was on Tuesday convicted by a city court for corruption during the tenure of former union minister Sukhram.
Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Judge VK Maheshwari convicted 57-year-old Ghosh for amassing assets disproportionate to her known sources of income.
The court will hear arguments on the quantum of punishment on Wednesday.
Ghosh, a deputy director general (licence and finance), was tried under the Prevention of Corruption Act for acquiring assets to the tune of Rs 22.7 lakh.
The CBI alleged that Ghosh had acquired jewellery, costly household items, a flat, a house-cum-shop and and share certificates while abusing her position as a public servant from November 1, 1992 to Aug 16, 1996.
The CBI had unearthed disproportionate assets to the tune of Rs 22.71 lakh from her residence on the same day when it recovered Rs 2.45 crore in cash from the then telecommunications minister Sukhram's houses.
In a separate case, Ghosh, along with Sukhram and Ramarao, managing director of the Hyderabad-based firm Advance Radio Masts (ARM) Ltd, had been convicted by a Delhi court in July 2002 for causing over Rs1.68 crore loss to the state exchequer by awarding a contract to the firm.
Her appeal against a two-year jail term is pending before the Delhi High Court.
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