Ranchi, March 30 -- Former Bihar Road Construction department minister and RJD leader Mohammad Ilyas Hussain was convicted in the 28-year-old bitumen scam by a special CBI court and sentenced to five years in jail and fined Rs 20 lakh here on Saturday. The case relates to the embezzlement of bitumen worth Rs 1.57 crore between 1994 and 1996, in which seven accused including Hussain were found guilty. The other convicts include his personal secretary Shahabuddin Beg, P&T director Kedar Paswan, deputy director Mujtaba Ahmed, executive engineer Ramanand Ram, section officer Shobha Sinha and transporter supplier Dudheshwar Nath Singh. CBI special court Judge Anil Kumar Mishra sentenced all the convicts to five years imprisonment and fine. Notab...