New Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday awarded 4-year jail term to former-Samata Party president Jaya Jaitley and two others for corruption in a 2000-01 case related to a purported defence deal, a lawyer said.
Special CBI judge Virender Bhat also awarded 4-year jail term to Jaitley's former party colleague Gopal Pacherwal and Major General (retd) SP Murgai in the case, Murgai's advocate Vikram Panwar said.
The court, in a proceeding held on camera, also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh each on all three convicts and directed them to surrender before it till 5 pm on Thursday.
The three were held guilty of corruption and criminal conspiracy in the purported purchase of hand-held thermal imagers.
The case stemmed from a sting, 'Operation Westend' aired by news portal Tehelka in January 2001.
PTI report
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