Last Updated on 07/08/2024 by wccexam Desk
AAP MP Sanjay Singh has received a setback from the MP-MLA court of Sultanpur district of Uttar Pradesh. On Tuesday, the court upheld the 45-day jail sentence of Aam Aadmi Party’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh and Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Anup Sanda in a 23-year-old case related to road blockade protest.
According to the prosecution, the incident took place on June 19, 2001, when the then Democratic Socialist Party leaders Anoop Sanda and Sanjay Singh, along with their supporters, blocked the road near a flyover here during a protest over electricity-related issues.
Was sentenced in 2023
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On January 11, 2023, the then magistrate of the Special Court, Yogesh Yadav, convicted all the 6 accused, including Sanda and Sanjay Singh, and sentenced them to 45 days’ imprisonment and a fine of Rs 1500 each.
Appeal against sentence dismissed
Special Public Prosecutor Vaibhav Pandey said that Special Sessions Judge (MP/MLA) Ekta Verma on Tuesday rejected the appeal of Sanjay Singh and Sanda against their conviction and sentence. Sanjay Singh, one of the founding members of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) formed in 2012, hails from Sultanpur district and was earlier associated with the Democratic Socialist Party. In 1994, he started an organization called ‘Sultanpur Samaj Seva Sangathan’.
According to the AAP website, Sanjay Singh worked for the rights of hawkers for 16 years, where he met socialist leader Raghu Thakur of the Democratic Socialist Party.
The defence in the case was represented by lawyers Kamlesh Kumar Singh, Karuna Shankar Dwivedi, Arvind Singh, Rudra Pratap Singh and Vibhas Srivastava.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)