A court in Nashik has suspended the two-year jail sentence imposed on Maharashtra minister Manikrao Kokate in a 1995 case, where he was charged with submitting fake documents to get flats under a government quota, reported news agency PTI.

The court will on Tuesday hear an appeal of the minister, who is an NCP leader and present agriculture minister, and his brother Sunil Kokate against their conviction in the cheating case.