Lalu Prasad Yadav: Lalu Prasad Yadav is convicted in the multi-crore fodder scam by the Central Bureau of Investigation. The quantum of the punishment will be done on October 3. Yadav has been remanded to custody on multiple cases, the most famous being the fodder scam. The RJD chief was earlier jailed on April 05, 2000 in connection with a disproportionate assets case.
Rasheed Masood: Congress Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament (MP) Rasheed Masood was sentenced to serve four years in prison in connection with his role in a medical admission scam. Masood is the first Member of Parliament of any party to convicted and sentenced to jail, and the first to lose his seat in the Rajya Sabha following a Supreme Court order that the members of parliament and the state legislators would automatically lose their seats after conviction. He will also not be allowed to contest elections for the next six years.
YS Jaganmohan Reddy: YSR Congress president YS Jaganmohan Reddy was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in May last year in connection to a disproportionate assets case. After remaining in prison for more than a year, Reddy was granted bail in the disproportionate assets case. Reddy was granted bail on surety of Rs 2 lakh. The MP from Kadapa was arrested on May 27, 2012.
Om Prakash Chautala: Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala is serving jail term in teacher’s recruitment scam. The 78-year-old leader, was convicted on January 22 by a trial court for illegally recruiting 3,206 junior teachers in 2000. He along with nine others, including his son Ajay Chautala, was sentenced to 10 years jail term.
Suresh Kalmadi: Former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairperson Suresh Kalmadi was arrested on April 26, 2011 in connection with the Commonwealth Games scam that caused a loss of over Rs 95 crore. Lodged in Tihar jail, Kalmadi was granted bail on surety of Rs 5 lakhs. He was accused of awarding the contract for installing the Timing-Scoring-Result system to Swiss Times Omega at an exorbitant cost of Rs 141 crore. The corruption charges cost Kalmadi his membership in Indian National Congress Party and post of president of the Indian Olympic Association.
BS Yeddyurappa: Former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa was arrested on October 15, 2011 and taken to the jail in Parappana Agrahara, a suburb in east Bangalore in connection to two corruption cases. Yeddyuruppa was accused of illegal land deals by two Bangalore advocates. The advocates charged Yeddyurappa, his two sons — BJP Lok Sabha member B.Y. Raghavendra and B.Y. Vijayendra — and son-in-law R. Sohan Kumar of conspiracy to free government land from official control, a process called denotification, in return for monetary gains.
Amar Singh: Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh was jailed in September, 2011 in connection to a cash-for-votes scam. He was accused of offering bribes to three MPs to support the government in 2008.
Kanimozhi: DMK MP and daughter of former Tamil Nadu chief minister, Kaunanidhi, Kanimozhi was sent to Tihar jail on May 20, 2011 by a special CBI court in connection with the 2G spectrum scam. She was granted bail in November 2011 by Delhi High Court.
A Raja: Former telecom minister A Raja was arrested in 2011 in the 2G spectrum scam. He was arrested under sections 120B, 13(2), 13(1D) of Prevention of Corruption Act on the charges of criminal misconduct, violation of policies and favouring some specific companies during the grant of 2G spectrum licences. Raja had to step down as minister in November in 2010 following allegations that second generation spectrum was sold to mobile companies at below market prices causing huge losses to the government. He had denied charges of wrongdoing. He walked out of the Tihar Jail after spending over 15 months for his alleged role in the 2G scam. A Delhi court today granted bail to Raja, who was arrested on February 2 last year, on a personal bond of Rs 20 lakh and two sureties of the like amount in the 2G spectrum case. The court, while granting bail, imposed conditions on Raja that he will not visit Tamil Nadu without its prior permission and will not go to the office of the Department of Telecom (DoT).
Sukh Ram: Former telecom minister Sukh Ram was sentenced to five years of rigorous imprisonment in November, 2011 by a Delhi court for misusing his official position when he was in the P.V. Narasimha Rao cabinet in 1996. He was convicted by the court which found him guilty of accepting a bribe of Rs.3 lakh from a private firm in 1996. This is the third conviction of Sukh Ram on corruption charges. In 2009, the octogenarian leader was convicted for owning disproportionate assets worth Rs.4.25 crore. Earlier in 2002, he was sentenced to three years in jail in another corruption case wherein he was held guilty for causing a loss of Rs.1.66 crore to the public exchequer in award of a contract to a Hyderabad-based firm for supplying some equipment to the government using fraudulent means
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