PRAYAGRAJ: Allahabad excessive courtroom on Monday put aside the conviction and four-year sentence awarded to Ghazipur SP MP Afzal Ansari in a Gangsters’ Act case linked to the homicide of a BJP MLA, Krishnanand Rai, in 2005. Afzal’s late brother Mukhtar had been sentenced to 10 years in the identical case lodged in 2007, stories Rajesh Kumar Pandey.
The newest order lifts pall of uncertainty on Afzal’s Lok Sabha membership.Underneath a Supreme Court docket ruling, sentences of two years and extra set off automated disqualification for MPs and MLAs and a bar on contesting polls for a number of years. In Afzal’s case, SC had earlier stayed his conviction, enabling him to battle this yr’s Lok Sabha elections and win. Afzal has been a five-time MLA and two-time MP.
In addition to Rai’s homicide, the case underneath the stringent Gangsters’ Act contained another fees in opposition to the Ansaris, together with a high-profile kidnapping. In the principle 2005 case associated to Rai’s homicide, the brothers had been acquitted by a CBI courtroom in 2019. The central company has appealed that verdict in Delhi HC. On Monday, the Allahabad excessive courtroom bench of Justice Sanjay Kumar Singh rejected appeals by the Uttar Pradesh govt and Rai’s son Piyush in search of enhancement of Afzal’s sentence.
The newest order lifts pall of uncertainty on Afzal’s Lok Sabha membership.Underneath a Supreme Court docket ruling, sentences of two years and extra set off automated disqualification for MPs and MLAs and a bar on contesting polls for a number of years. In Afzal’s case, SC had earlier stayed his conviction, enabling him to battle this yr’s Lok Sabha elections and win. Afzal has been a five-time MLA and two-time MP.
In addition to Rai’s homicide, the case underneath the stringent Gangsters’ Act contained another fees in opposition to the Ansaris, together with a high-profile kidnapping. In the principle 2005 case associated to Rai’s homicide, the brothers had been acquitted by a CBI courtroom in 2019. The central company has appealed that verdict in Delhi HC. On Monday, the Allahabad excessive courtroom bench of Justice Sanjay Kumar Singh rejected appeals by the Uttar Pradesh govt and Rai’s son Piyush in search of enhancement of Afzal’s sentence.
