Prime Court docket Suspends Sentence Awarded To Maharashtra Minister In Attack Case

Nagpur:

The Nagpur bench of the Bombay Prime Court docket on Thursday suspended the three-month sentence awarded to Maharashtra cupboard minister Yashomati Thakur for allegedly assaulting a policeman in Amravati district in 2012.

A periods courtroom in Amravati on October 15 convicted Ms Thakur, who’s the state’s girls and kid construction minister, and 3 others together with her motive force, within the case and sentenced them to 3 months imprisonment.

Yashomati Thakur, a Congress chief, previous this week filed an enchantment within the prime courtroom towards the conviction and sought suspension of the sentence by the use of period in-between aid, pending ultimate listening to of her plea.

The plea additionally hunted for the conviction to be stayed.

“Naked perusal of the proof of the witnesses obviously presentations that the periods courtroom dedicated an error by way of convicting the appellant (Thakur). There’s no case made out for conviction,” the minister”s advocates Subodh Dharmadhikari and Aniket Nikam argued.

Justice Vinay Joshi on Thursday admitted the enchantment and suspended the sentence. He posted the enchantment for additional listening to on October 27.

“The appellant has been awarded a sentence of 3 months. Having regard to the quantum of the sentence, its execution must be suspended,” Justice Joshi mentioned.

In step with the prosecution, the incident happened on March 24, 2012, within the Chunabhatti house underneath Rajapeth police station limits in Amravati when Thakur, then an MLA, was once transferring in her car at the side of her aides.

In step with the fee sheet, Yashomati Thakur, her motive force Sagar Suresh Khandekar, and party employees Sharad Kashirav Jawanjal and Raju Kisan Ingle, allegedly beat up site visitors policeman Ulhas Raurale when he stopped her car from getting into a one-way lane.

Yashomati Thakur is lately the mum or dad minister of Amravati district.