Shakshi Maharaj gets bail after high drama
BY Agencies4 Aug 2012 1:36 AM GMT
Agencies4 Aug 2012 1:36 AM GMT
Controversial former MP Sacchidanand Hari Sakshi Maharaj got interim bail from SC/ST court in Etah on Friday after much drama when his case shifted from one court to another. Earlier in the day, a local court had denied him bail in a case filed under the SC/ST Act. It had ordered that the former MP should be arrested immediately and tried under the SC/ST Atrocities Act.
The lawyers of Shakshi Maharaj immediately moved the District Court where Judge Shyam Vinod, after hearing the arguments from both sides, transferred the case to the SC/ST court.
The SC/ST court granted interim bail to the ex-MP and fixed 8 August as the next hearing date.
The case goes like this: one Ram Sewak, son of Yadram Valmiki and resident of Udestpur village, had filed a case under sections 147, 323, 504, 506, 310 of the IPC for land grabbing and other anomalies. The case was filed in 2010. In 2011, the court had issued warrant against Shakshi Maharaj.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Vansh Bahadur Yadav on Friday rejected the bail plea of Sakshi Maharaj and two other accused Satya Prakash and Mukesh. In the FIR, Ram Sewak, a dalit, had charged Sakshi Maharaj, Satya Prakash and Mukesh with grabbing his land and doing illegal construction on it. He had accused them of thrashing and misbehaving with him when he met them demanding that his land should be returned to him.
The counsel of the former MP had moved his bail application before District Judge Shyam Vinod who later passed on the case to SC/ST Court.
Shakshi Maharaj had a chequered political career. He had earlier joined the BJP but left and joined Kalyan Singh later. He was in the forefront during the Ram Janmabhoomi agitation and was Lok Sabha MP from Farrukhabad in Uttar Pradesh three times.
There are rape charges against him and he was expelled from Rajya Sabha for misuse of MPLAD funds.
The lawyers of Shakshi Maharaj immediately moved the District Court where Judge Shyam Vinod, after hearing the arguments from both sides, transferred the case to the SC/ST court.
The SC/ST court granted interim bail to the ex-MP and fixed 8 August as the next hearing date.
The case goes like this: one Ram Sewak, son of Yadram Valmiki and resident of Udestpur village, had filed a case under sections 147, 323, 504, 506, 310 of the IPC for land grabbing and other anomalies. The case was filed in 2010. In 2011, the court had issued warrant against Shakshi Maharaj.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Vansh Bahadur Yadav on Friday rejected the bail plea of Sakshi Maharaj and two other accused Satya Prakash and Mukesh. In the FIR, Ram Sewak, a dalit, had charged Sakshi Maharaj, Satya Prakash and Mukesh with grabbing his land and doing illegal construction on it. He had accused them of thrashing and misbehaving with him when he met them demanding that his land should be returned to him.
The counsel of the former MP had moved his bail application before District Judge Shyam Vinod who later passed on the case to SC/ST Court.
Shakshi Maharaj had a chequered political career. He had earlier joined the BJP but left and joined Kalyan Singh later. He was in the forefront during the Ram Janmabhoomi agitation and was Lok Sabha MP from Farrukhabad in Uttar Pradesh three times.
There are rape charges against him and he was expelled from Rajya Sabha for misuse of MPLAD funds.
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