New Delhi: A special court on Tuesday fixed for April 4 a matter in which CBI has been asked to verify whether two of the five persons it had summoned as accused in a graft case, in which ex-Union minister P K Thungon was awarded a four-and-a-half-year jail term, have died.
Special judge Ajay Kumar Jain posted the case for next date after noting that the matter was pending before the Delhi High Court. The court had summoned five persons as accused on July 21 while convicting Thungon and three others in a cheating and corruption case lodged by CBI 17 years ago.
These five persons were scheduled to appear before the court on November 4 last year and the judge was informed by the prosecutor that two of the five accused, Neilakuo Suokhrie and Khrienguozo Angami, were reported to have died.
The court was informed on the last date date of hearing that the high court has stayed its order summoning two accused, K Konngam Konyak, the then minister of state in Nagaland for irrigation and flood control, and Mezakrol in the case. Fifth accused summoned by the court in the case is Bendang Wapang.
All these five accused were not named in the CBI charge sheet in the case, in which Thungon and three others were convicted and sentenced by the court, due to want of sanction to prosecute them and also on the ground that no prosecutable evidence was found against them.
However, while convicting Thungon and three others, the court had summoned these five persons as accused. 69-year-old Thungon and three others were sentenced for offences under various sections of IPC (PTI)
