Lucknow: Special Court (MP / MLA) provides a life imprisonment on Friday for Minister of Gayatri Prajapati and two of his guests – Ashok Tiwari and Ashish Shukla – in the case of gang rape.
It also watered each of them Rs 2 lakh.
The PK Rai Special Judge rejected their request to punish them with a minimum quantum sentence.
The three were present in court and were taken to prison to serve the term their lives.
They now have the choice to move the High Court to assessment and order authorized by the Special Court, which has stated they are guilty on Wednesday.
The prosecution has opposed the convicted request for sending punishment in punishment.
“If a man in a post responsible for committing such violations, abusing his strength and position, the court must deal with him firmly to provide messages to the public,” said prosecution.
Prajapati, who is Minister of Mining Department in the Akhilesh Yadav government, was arrested and sent to prison on March 15, 2017 concerning allegations of raping a woman and tried to rape her little daughter.
He has been in prison since then.
Prajapati also faced several probes in alleged mining fraud in the state during his tenure as minister.
He was given a guarantee once but was canceled by the high court immediately, before he could get out of prison.
HC has noted that there is a disappointment in giving guarantees.
Declaring Gayatri and the other two were guilty two days ago, a special judge said on Wednesday that prosecution had succeeded in proving his case without a doubt.
The court has found the three under the IPC section 376 (D) and 5 (g) read with section 6 of the Pocso Law.
However, the court released Vikas Verma, Roopeshwar, Amrendra Singh, aka a door, and chandrapal due to lack of evidence.
The prosecution has produced 17 witnesses in this case.
A senior police officer said that Ashish Shukla was the former aide of the minister, that he maintained his work in the state capital and also an important relationship with his constituents at Amethi.
On the other hand, Ashok Tiwari is a government officer posted as “Lekhpal” in Amethi Tehsil.
He was suspended on March 5, 2017.
The officer also said Tiwari kept all mining records from the former minister.
According to the police, congratulations were introduced to the minister in 2013 at his official residence by Ashok Tewari.
After that, during his meeting with the Minister, Prajapati offered to make him a license for sand mining.
At one of the meetings, he thought he presents tea mixed with sedatives and raped while unpleasant photos taken.