New Delhi: A Delhi court has asked former minister Sukh Ram to surrender before the trial court by Saturday evening over the 1993 telecom scam. Earlier his counsel had argued that he could not appear in the court because he was in coma.
"He has gone into coma, he cannot move from hospital," his counsel told Special CBI Judge Dharmesh Sharma on Thursday.
The Supreme Court had asked the former Union minister to surrender before a trial court on or before January 5.
His counsel submitted that Sukh Ram was hospitalised after undergoing computerised tomography (CT) angiography.
The two other convicts - former bureaucrat Runu Ghosh and Hyderabad-based businessman P Rama Rao - had surrendered before the trial court on Thursday and were sent to jail to serve their sentence of two and three years respectively.
While upholding their conviction, the high court had directed all the three convicts to surrender before the trial court on January 5 to undergo their jail terms.
The three convicts had approached the apex court to grant them relief so that they would not have to surrender.
The apex court, however, refused to entertain their plea, saying that their appeal against the Delhi High Court would be listed for hearing only after they surrender before the trial court.
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