LUCKNOW: Former UP Congress president Ajay Kumar alias Lallu was awarded one-year imprisonment on Saturday for making defamatory feedback towards Shrikant Sharma, who was the facility minister in Yogi 1.0 authorities, relating to the alleged Rs 2,600 crore EPF rip-off within the UPPCL.
The court docket additionally imposed a positive of Rs 10,000 on Lallu and mentioned that if he didn’t deposit the positive, he must spend 15 days extra in jail. Lallu had requested the court docket to launch him on probation as an alternative of awarding him sentence, however further chief judicial Justice of the Peace AK Srivastava turned down his request.
“Since Lallu is (former) state president of a nationwide get together and is in public life and as such it’s extra anticipated of him that he should observe persistence on his conduct and language in public life. If Lallu is given the advantage of probation, it might ship a improper message to the widespread public,” noticed the court docket.
Sharma, who’s now Mathura MLA, had filed a prison grievance within the court docket in 2019 pleading the court docket to summon and punish Lallu as he had made indecent allegations towards him in public. Lallu was summoned and placed on trial. Delivering the judgment on Saturday, the court docket sentenced him for the offence he dedicated beneath part 500 of IPC. Earlier than submitting the case in court docket, Sharma had despatched a authorized discover to Lallu searching for an apology, however he didn’t tender any apology.The court docket discovered Lallu’s assertion improper, malicious and deceptive and made with out verifying info as a part of a conspiracy to hurt Sharma’s picture and status. Lallu had on November 4, 2019 made an allegation towards Sharma and questioned objective of his alleged tour to Dubai and sought probe into Sharma’s alleged Dubai go to in September-October 2017, saying it smacked of nationwide safety points.
“It needs to be probed as to why Shrikant Sharma visited Dubai in September-October 2017. Whom did he meetthere?” Lallu had tweeted and likewise sought to know who all met the minister in Dubai. Lallu had additionally mentioned the matter of funding of energy staff’ EPF cash in DHFL not solely amounted to corruption however was additionally associated to nationwide safety. In his grievance, the previous minister mentioned that he didn’t go to Dubai in 2017 and likewise pressured that the choice to put money into the Dewan Housing Finance Company Restricted (DHFL) was taken through the earlier Samajwadi Celebration authorities headed by Akhilesh Yadav.
The court docket additionally imposed a positive of Rs 10,000 on Lallu and mentioned that if he didn’t deposit the positive, he must spend 15 days extra in jail. Lallu had requested the court docket to launch him on probation as an alternative of awarding him sentence, however further chief judicial Justice of the Peace AK Srivastava turned down his request.
“Since Lallu is (former) state president of a nationwide get together and is in public life and as such it’s extra anticipated of him that he should observe persistence on his conduct and language in public life. If Lallu is given the advantage of probation, it might ship a improper message to the widespread public,” noticed the court docket.
Sharma, who’s now Mathura MLA, had filed a prison grievance within the court docket in 2019 pleading the court docket to summon and punish Lallu as he had made indecent allegations towards him in public. Lallu was summoned and placed on trial. Delivering the judgment on Saturday, the court docket sentenced him for the offence he dedicated beneath part 500 of IPC. Earlier than submitting the case in court docket, Sharma had despatched a authorized discover to Lallu searching for an apology, however he didn’t tender any apology.The court docket discovered Lallu’s assertion improper, malicious and deceptive and made with out verifying info as a part of a conspiracy to hurt Sharma’s picture and status. Lallu had on November 4, 2019 made an allegation towards Sharma and questioned objective of his alleged tour to Dubai and sought probe into Sharma’s alleged Dubai go to in September-October 2017, saying it smacked of nationwide safety points.
“It needs to be probed as to why Shrikant Sharma visited Dubai in September-October 2017. Whom did he meetthere?” Lallu had tweeted and likewise sought to know who all met the minister in Dubai. Lallu had additionally mentioned the matter of funding of energy staff’ EPF cash in DHFL not solely amounted to corruption however was additionally associated to nationwide safety. In his grievance, the previous minister mentioned that he didn’t go to Dubai in 2017 and likewise pressured that the choice to put money into the Dewan Housing Finance Company Restricted (DHFL) was taken through the earlier Samajwadi Celebration authorities headed by Akhilesh Yadav.