BSP MP denied bail to attend Parliament session

Additional sessions judge Daya Prakash dismissed the plea of Dhananjay, an MP from Jaunpur seat of Uttar Pradesh. The MP had moved the court seeking interim bail to attend the ongoing Session of Parliament which is scheduled to conclude on 20 December. Dhananjay and his wife Jagriti Singh, a dental surgeon at the R M L Hospital here, are in Tihar jail.

They were arrested on 5 November in connection with the death of their 35-year-old maid Rakhi Bhadra, a resident of West Bengal. Jagriti was arrested under sections 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder), 344 (wrongful confinement) of the Indian Penal Code and Juvenile Justice Act.

The MP, who also faces charges of murder and offences under the UP Gangsters Act, was arrested for allegedly destroying evidence, not informing police about the maid’s death immediately and employing a juvenile as domestic help.