Former Akali Dal Badal leader Sucha Singh Langah sentenced to 3 years jail

Former Akali Dal Badal leader Sucha Singh Langah sentenced to 3 years jailChandigarh, February 12, 2015: Sucha Singh Langah, former minister and senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader was sentenced to three years imprisonment in a corruption case and fined Rs.1 crore by a court in Mohali town.The court found Langah guilty in a disproportionate assets case registered against him in 2002.Earlier, Langah was public works department (PWD) minister in the government of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal from 1997 to 2002.He was also the agriculture minister in the Badal government between 2007 and 2012. He was considered close to Badal earlier. He lost the election in the 2012 Punjab assembly polls.