© thehindu.comCourt Suspends AAP MP Sanjay Singh's Execution Of Sentence In 2001 Case
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The Allahabad High Court on Thursday stayed a three-month jail sentence given to Aam Aadmi PartyAam Aadmi PartyAam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh in a case about a protest in 2001, Live Law reported. The High Court said that on a preliminary reading, the trial court’s verdict was “perverse”.
The case pertains to a protest held in Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur on June 19, 2001, under the leadership of former Samajwadi Party MLA Anoop Sanda against poor electricity supply.
Singh had participated in it along with former councillors Kamal Srivastava, Vijay Kumar, Santosh and Subhash Chaudhary. Subsequently, a case of unlawful assembly and wrongful restraint was registered against the six persons at the Kotwali Nagar police station.
“ The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has stayed the three-month sentence awarded in a 23-year-old case. Truth triumphed with the decision of the honourable high court. Heartfelt gratitude to…
M. R. Singh,
Court Suspends AAP MP Sanjay Singh's Execution Of Sentence In 2001…