MP lawyer in jail after choose says his birthday message ‘indecent’

AN ADVOCATE in Madhya Pradesh’s Ratlam has been lodged in jail since February 9 on varied expenses, together with below the IT Act, for allegedly sending birthday greetings to a Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) within the district by means of an electronic mail at 1.11 am on January 28 and velocity submit later.
The FIR within the case states that the accused Vijay Singh Yadav, 37, allegedly downloaded a profile image of the JMFC from her Facebook account with out her consent and despatched it to her as a part of the greeting with an “indecent message”.
The FIR was registered on the Station Road police station on February 8 primarily based on a criticism from Mahendra Singh Chouhan, System Officer, Ratlam District Court, and consists of expenses of dishonest, forgery and forgery for the aim of harming status, and sections of the IT Act.
The criticism acknowledged that other than the mail, Yadav allegedly despatched the JMFC a greeting card by means of velocity submit thefollowing day throughout courtroom hours.
Yadav’s brother Jay advised The Indian Express that his sibling, who’s married with 4 youngsters, was arrested from his residence. The police inspector in-charge of the station didn’t reply to calls from The Indian Express in search of remark.

Jay mentioned that Yadav is arguing the case himself. On February 13, 4 days after the arrest, a decrease courtroom rejected Yadav’s bail plea. His household has approached the Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court for bail with the subsequent listening to on March 3.

In the bail plea, Yadav has cited a separate “private complaint” submitted by him to the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM), Ratlam, in opposition to the JMFC. He has additionally claimed within the plea that he had despatched the birthday greeting as a social employee and president of Jai Kul Devi Sewa Samiti, Ratlam — and that he had downloaded the picture from Google and used it as a “creative designer”.