Former Union Minister Sukh Ram on Thursday did not surrender before a Delhi court to serve his three-year jail term in a 1993 graft case citing medical grounds. His co-accused Runu Ghosh and P Rama Rao, however submitted themselves to the law to serve their sentences.

Sukh Ram cited medical reasons for not surrendering as his counsel told Special CBI Judge Dharmesh Sharma that the veteran politician has undergone angiography owing to his cardiac ailments and is hospitalised.

The judge said Sukh Ram's plea that he be taken into judicial custody at the hospital itself will be heard tomorrow
by concerned Special CBI Judge Sanjiv Jain, who was on leave on Thursday.

After former bureaucrat Runu Ghosh and Hyderabad-based businessman Rama Rao surrendered before Special Judge
Dharmesh Sharma, they were taken into custody and sent to jail to serve their respective two and three year terms.

The apex court had refused to give any relief to them earlier in the day and had directed them to surrender before
the concerned trial court in accordance with the Delhi High Court judgement upholding their conviction and asking them to surrender on January 5.