VARANASI: Former MP Dhananjay Singh and his shut aide Satish Vikram Singh landed in jail after the MP-MLA court docket of Jaunpur on Tuesday convicted them in a case of kidnapping, extortion and prison conspiracy lodged in Might 2020, reviews Rajeev Dikshit.Offering particulars of the court docket’s order to TOI, Jaunpur’s govt counsel (prison) Satish Pandey stated that ADJ-IV (MP-MLA) Sharad Kumar Tripathi discovered them responsible within the 2020 case and can announce the quantum of punishment on Wednesday.The court docket ordered for cancellation of bail and Dhananjay and his aide have been despatched straight to the district jail, he stated.If he’s sentenced for 2 years or extra, Dhananjay won’t be able to contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections till the sentence is stayed by a better court docket. The minimal sentence in kidnapping instances is seven years.Dhananjay and Satish had been booked underneath IPC sections 364 (kidnapping), 386 (extortion by placing an individual in worry of demise or grievous harm), 120B (prison conspiracy), 504 (intentional insult) and 506 (prison intimidation) by Line Bazar police on a criticism by challenge supervisor Abhinav Singhal on Might 10, 2020. Each have been arrested on the subsequent day.Singhal was challenge supervisor of a agency engaged by UP Jal Nigam for laying sewer strains underneath a sewage remedy plant challenge of over Rs 300 crore. In his criticism, he had alleged that Dhananjay was forcing his agency and the Jal Nigam officers to obtain sand from him even after it was rejected attributable to poor high quality prior to now. In his criticism, he had alleged that he was threatened repeatedly by Dhananjay’s goons and in addition taken to his place the place he was threatened at gunpoint.Singhal had alleged that on Might 10, 2020, Dhananjay took Singhal to his place in his SUV forcibly. Even the managing director of his Delhi-based firm, which had been dealing with the STP challenge in Jaunpur since 2014, was threatened over the cellphone. A UPJN official was additionally pressured over cellphone by Dhananjay to approve the standard of his sand, he added.Later, Dhananjay had managed to return out of jail after getting bail from the excessive court docket. Until 2020, 37 prison instances had already been lodged in opposition to Dhananjay, who was additionally booked underneath Gangsters Act 4 occasions between 1996 and 2013. After this case of kidnapping lodged in 2020, Dhananjay landed in one other controversy in 2021 when he had been accused of conspiring the sensational homicide of history-sheeter Ajit Singh in Lucknow on Jan 6, 2021.Dhananjay had gained the 2002 meeting elections as an impartial candidate from Rari seat in Jaunpur to make his entry in energetic politics and retained this seat in 2007 as JD(U) candidate. He had contested the 2004 LS polls unsuccessfully. However in 2009, he joined BSP and emerged victorious from Jaunpur LS seat. Between 2012 and 2016, his expulsion from BSP and return to the celebration continued a number of occasions. Dhananjay had contested the 2014 LS polls as an impartial candidate and will handle solely 64,137 votes. He’s getting ready to contest the upcoming LS polls.
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