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Big relief to Jaya Jaitley: Former Samata Party president Jaya Jaitley has got a big relief from the Delhi High Court in a corruption case. The High Court has suspended the 4-year sentence given to him by the lower court.

Highlights

• Big relief to Jaya Jaitley, former president of Samata Party convicted in the corruption case in defense deal
• Delhi High Court suspends Jaitley’s 4-year sentence from a lower court
• On Thursday, a Delhi court sentenced Jaitley and 2 others to 4-4 years imprisonment.
• The case of corruption is from 2000-01, the news portal Tehelka revealed it through a sting operation.

The Delhi High Court has suspended the sentence of 4 years in the trial court to Jaya Jaitley and Tehelka sting operation, former chairman of the Samata Party, in the corruption deal in the defense deal. Jaitley and 2 others were sentenced to 4 years imprisonment by a Delhi court on Thursday in the 2000-2001 case. She reached the Delhi High Court against this punishment, which suspended the sentence. The lower court had asked the three convicts to surrender today but Jaya Jaitley has got a big relief from the High Court.

Order to surrender by evening

Earlier on Thursday, Special CBI Judge Virender Bhatt, Jaya Jaitley’s former party colleague Gopal Pacherwal, Major General (Retd.) S. P. Murgai was also sentenced to four years imprisonment. The three convicts were fined Rs 1 lakh each and were instructed to surrender by 5 pm on Thursday. The trial court has found the trio guilty of corruption and criminal conspiracy in the purchase of hand-operated ‘thermal imagers’.

How was corruption exposed

In 2001, the news portal Tehelka revealed this corruption in a Tehlka Sting Operation. The bribes were accepted by the accused from a journalist who came as a representative of the suspected company to supply thermal imager to the army.

Bribes were taken from an imaginary company!

Jaya Jaitley illegally collected Rs 2 lakh from Matthew Samuel, a representative of fictitious company Westend International, while Murgai received Rs 20,000. Surendra Kumar Surekha along with the three accused were parties to the criminal conspiracy case, but Surekha later became a government witness.

George also had to resign

After the Tehelka incident, the opposition badly surrounded the then Defense Minister Fernandes. Fernandes, who was postponing to resign after the opposition’s attack, finally bowed down and was forced to resign. Before that, the then president of his party, Samata Party, Jaya Jaitley also had to resign.