Delhi Speaker Ram Niwas Goel sentenced to six months in prison for 2015 trespassing incident

A court in Delhi on Friday sentenced Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel to six months in prison for trespassing onto the home of a realtor in an East Delhi colony in 2015, PTI reported.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal held Goel and four others – Sumit Goyal, Hitesh Khanna, Atul Gupta and Balbir Singh – guilty, saying that the case against them had been proved beyond reasonable doubt.

“I am of the view that the punishment needs to be deterrent in this case,” Vishal said, also imposing a Rs 1,000 penalty on each of them. However, the court granted them bail on a bond of Rs one lakh to enable them to file appeals in a higher court.