NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Thursday sentenced ex-Samata Party president Jaya Jaitly to four years jail term in a corruption case relating to a defence deal.

Two other convicts and Jaitly's former party colleague Gopal Pacherwal and Major General (Rtd) S.P. Murgai have also been awarded a similar jail term by the court.

CBI judge Virender Bhat has directed the trio to surrender before it till 5 p.m. on Thursday. They have also been levied with a fine of Rs one lakh each.

According to the Central Bureau of Investigation, Jaitley entered into a criminal conspiracy with Murgai, Surekha and Pacherwal in the year 2000-01 and obtained Rs two lakh as gratification for herself or for any other person from Mathew Samuel, representative of fictitious firm M/s Westend International, London.

She did it as a motive to exercise influence upon the public servants in the matter to getting supply orders for defence equipments i.e. Hand Held Thermal Cameras (HHTC) from the Ministry of Defence for the said fictitious firm.