SP strongman Ramakant Yadav sentenced to 4 months jail in 2019 assault case

By PTI

JAUNPUR: The MP-MLA courtroom, proper right here on Tuesday, sentenced Samajwadi Party MLA and former MP Ramakant Yadav to 4 months imprisonment and moreover imposed an excellent of Rs 7,000 in a 2019 case of assault.

Yadav, an influential Uttar Pradesh politician, has been an MP 4 events from the Azamgarh Lok Sabha seat and was thus far with the Bahujan Samaj Party, the BJP and the Congress.

He had surrendered sooner than an MP-MLA courtroom remaining 12 months in a 24-year-old case related to election violence and is at current in jail.

Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (III) Shweta Chandra sentenced Yadav, MLA from Phulpur Pawai assembly seat in Azamgarh district to 4 months imprisonment in an incident of assault that occurred three and a half years prior to now near Hotel River-View in Chak Pyar Ali of the city, district authorities council Satish Kumar Pandey talked about on Tuesday.

According to the prosecution, on December 5, 2019, when Yadav’s convoy was shifting throughout the area, any individual from his vehicle hit the complainant, Mitrasen Singh, who was on his bike, with a stick. It was alleged that Ramakant Yadav and his 10-12 supporters purchased down from their vehicle and started beating Singh whereas abusing him.

They allegedly pointed a rifle at his chest and threatened to kill him.

Yadav joined the Samajwadi Party in October 2019, days after he was expelled from the Congress for ‘anti-party’ actions. He had switched to the Congress from the BJP early that 12 months.

He made his debut throughout the Lok Sabha from Azamgarh seat in 1996 on an SP ticket and as soon as extra acquired the constituency in 1999.

He acquired the 2004 parliamentary elections to the seat on a BSP ticket and later in 2009 for the BJP, which he had joined the sooner 12 months.

Ramakant Yadav fought the 2014 Lok Sabha election from Azamgarh on a BJP ticket nonetheless misplaced the seat to SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav.

JAUNPUR: The MP-MLA courtroom, proper right here on Tuesday, sentenced Samajwadi Party MLA and former MP Ramakant Yadav to 4 months imprisonment and moreover imposed an excellent of Rs 7,000 in a 2019 case of assault.

Yadav, an influential Uttar Pradesh politician, has been an MP 4 events from the Azamgarh Lok Sabha seat and was thus far with the Bahujan Samaj Party, the BJP and the Congress.

He had surrendered sooner than an MP-MLA courtroom remaining 12 months in a 24-year-old case related to election violence and is at current in jail.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (III) Shweta Chandra sentenced Yadav, MLA from Phulpur Pawai assembly seat in Azamgarh district to 4 months imprisonment in an incident of assault that occurred three and a half years prior to now near Hotel River-View in Chak Pyar Ali of the city, district authorities council Satish Kumar Pandey talked about on Tuesday.

According to the prosecution, on December 5, 2019, when Yadav’s convoy was shifting throughout the area, any individual from his vehicle hit the complainant, Mitrasen Singh, who was on his bike, with a stick. It was alleged that Ramakant Yadav and his 10-12 supporters purchased down from their vehicle and started beating Singh whereas abusing him.

They allegedly pointed a rifle at his chest and threatened to kill him.

Yadav joined the Samajwadi Party in October 2019, days after he was expelled from the Congress for ‘anti-party’ actions. He had switched to the Congress from the BJP early that 12 months.

He made his debut throughout the Lok Sabha from Azamgarh seat in 1996 on an SP ticket and as soon as extra acquired the constituency in 1999.

He acquired the 2004 parliamentary elections to the seat on a BSP ticket and later in 2009 for the BJP, which he had joined the sooner 12 months.

Ramakant Yadav fought the 2014 Lok Sabha election from Azamgarh on a BJP ticket nonetheless misplaced the seat to SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav.