8-Year Jail For Conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar For Posing As Top Court Judge

A Delhi court has sentenced conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar to eight years in jail for impersonating a Supreme Court judge during a bail proceeding, terming the act "institutional sacrilege" and a possible attack on the very integrity of the judicial process.Chief Judicial Magistrate Harshita Mishra was hearing arguments on sentence against Chandrashekhar. She awarded him two years' rigorous imprisonment each for impersonating a public servant and intimidating a public servant, and four years for criminal intimidation through anonymous communication.The court directed all the substantive sentences to run consecutively, making the total sentence eight years.In an order dated August 29, which was made available today, the court said, "The deliberate, calculated and deceptive manner in which the offences were committed by the convict in this case warrants a sentence commensurate with the gravity of the attack upon the rule of law and the administration of justice."