Ex-MP Dhananjay Singh Gets Bail In 2020 Kidnapping-Extortion Case

The Allahabad High Court on Saturday granted bail to former MP Dhananjay Singh but refused his plea to suspend or stay a seven-year imprisonment sentence passed by a district court in a 2020 kidnapping and extortion case.

After the high court order, Mr Singh will be released on bail, but he cannot contest the election.

The MP-MLA court in Jaunpur on March 6, sentenced Mr Singh and his associate Santosh Vikram to seven years of rigorous imprisonment in a 2020 case of the kidnapping and extortion of Namami Gange project manager Abhinav Singhal.

After hearing the criminal appeal filed by the former MP and his associate on April 24, Justice Sanjay Kumar Singh had reserved the order.