Former MLA will get three years jail in slapping case
Former BJP MLA Bhavani Singh Rajawat has been sentenced to three years in jail within the two and a half 12 months previous slapping case in Kota. The SC/ST court docket on Thursday convicted Rajawat and BJP employee Mahavir Suman and sentenced them to a few years of straightforward imprisonment every. Apart from this, a advantageous of Rs 30-30 thousand has additionally been imposed on each of them. After this resolution of the court docket, Rajawat whereas speaking to the media stated that he’ll attraction in opposition to this resolution within the High Court.
This matter is of March 2022, when the forest division had stopped the patchwork being finished by UIT on Dadh Devi Mata Mandir Road. Former MLA Bhavani Singh Rajawat and his supporters bought indignant on this. On March 31, 2022, at round 3:30 pm, Rajawat, Mahavir Suman and a few of their different supporters had reached the Forest Department workplace positioned on Raj Bhavan Road. At that point, Ravikumar Meena, the then Deputy Conservator of Forests (DCF) of the Forest Department, was requesting Rajawat to sit down and drink tea. During the dialog, Rajawat slapped the DCF, after which the matter escalated.
DCF Ravikumar Meena had registered a case in opposition to Bhavani Singh Rajawat and Mahavir Suman and 10-15 different folks at Nayapura police station in Kota on expenses of slapping, pushing and obstructing authorities work. The police had registered a case below sections 332 (non-bailable), 353, 34 and SC/ST Act. Rajawat was arrested on 1 April 2022, and needed to keep in jail for 10 days. Later, he got here out after getting bail from the High Court.
In at this time’s resolution, the court docket discovered Bhavani Singh Rajawat and Mahavir Suman responsible on expenses of obstructing authorities work and slapping. At the identical time, each had been acquitted of expenses below the SC/ST Act. After this resolution of the court docket, Rajawat’s lawyer Prithviraj Shekhawat instructed that he had filed a suspension software of the sentence, which has been accepted by the court docket. The court docket has given one month’s time on this.
After the court docket’s resolution, Bhavani Singh Rajawat instructed the media, ‘I didn’t ask anybody to be silly, I simply put my hand on the shoulder. Now I’ve full religion within the court docket and can attraction within the High Court. I’m assured that justice will likely be served.
Report – Harish Acharya / Kota.
