A Delhi court today convicted former union minister P K Thungon for his alleged role in a scam relating to allotment of government shops in the national capital during 1993-94. Mr Thungan is already in jail in another graft case. Special CBI Judge Sanjeev Aggarwal, however, acquitted two other accused in the case. The court will hear arguments on sentence tomorrow.
A case was registered by the CBI in 1996 against him and other accused for allegedly hatching a conspiracy in allotting shops and stalls in 1994. Mr Thungon was awarded a four-and-a-half year jail term in July last year in a 1998 graft case relating to misappropriation of central funds.