A Special CBI court today sentenced Congress MP, Rasheed Masood for four years in jail. He was found gulity in medical admission scam case in VP Singh's tenure.

The member of the Rajya Sabha had been convicted last week for cheating, criminal conspiracy and forgery. The Congress MP now faces disqualification from the Rajya Sabha. Masood, minister of health between 1990 and 1991, was held guilty of fraudulently nominating undeserving candidates to MBBS seats allotted to Tripura in medical colleges across the country from the central pool.
Former IPS officer Gurdial Singh and retired IAS official Amal Kumar Roy, the then secretary of Tripura chief minister Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar, are also convicted in the case.
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