Maharashtra agriculture minister Manikrao Kokate and his brother Sunil Kokate have been sentenced to two years in prison for a 1995 forgery case. They were found guilty of forging documents to fraudulently obtain housing under a government scheme and were fined Rs 50,000 each.
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