SC stays HC order granting bail to ex-UP minister in gang rape case

A bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy and M R Shah took word of the plea of the Uttar Pradesh govt and stayed the prime courtroom’s bail order and sought reaction of the accused chief at the petition. (information Picture/Record)

The Ideally suited Court docket Monday stayed former Uttar Pradesh minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati’s meantime bail, granted for 2 months on clinical grounds through the Allahabad Top Court docket, in a gang rape case.

The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad Top Court docket on September three had granted the meantime bail to Prajapati who was once a minister within the erstwhile Samajwadi Birthday party govt.

Regardless of the prime courtroom bail, Prajapati remained in judicial custody as a contemporary case of fraud, forgery and felony intimidation was once registered towards him.

A bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy and M R Shah took word of the plea of the Uttar Pradesh govt and stayed the prime courtroom’s bail order and sought reaction of the accused chief at the petition.

The state govt, in its attraction, stated that the “Top Court docket has erroneously granted a momentary bail of 2 months to the Respondent accused in a POCSO case only on clinical grounds ignoring that the accused has all over been handled in premier nationwide clinical Institutes KGMC / SG-PGI, additionally specifically when the common bail software of the Respondent has already been fastened for listening to within the week starting off September 28”.

It stated the accused was once a “very distinguished Minister within the erstwhile govt and wielded really extensive affect within the environs of powers”.

The political place of the accused was once so dominating that the FIR towards him was once registered handiest after the sufferer approached the Ideally suited Court docket, the UP govt stated.

The prime courtroom, whilst granting the bail, had stated the risk to the ex-minister from COVID-19 was once actual and drawing close and he has been requested through docs to get handled at a super-specialty sanatorium as he was once affected by more than a few illnesses.

Prajapati is in prison since March 15, 2017 and is these days present process remedy for more than a few diseases at KGMU. He, at the side of others, is accused of raping a lady and making an attempt to molest her minor daughter

The group rape case was once lodged with Gautampalli police station in 2017 and later, Prajapati was once arrested and despatched to prison on March 15, 2017.
He was once previous granted bail through a periods courtroom within the case nevertheless it was once cancelled through the prime courtroom sooner than his liberate from prison.

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