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Jaipur: Nine members of the Congress celebration, together with two sitting legislators, have been sentenced to 1 12 months of imprisonment by a Jaipur courtroom on Wednesday for allegedly blocking roads outdoors the University of Rajasthan throughout a pupil protest in 2014. All the accused have been granted bail shortly after the sentencing. All 9 accused — together with Ladnun MLA Mukesh Bhakar and Shahpura MLA Manish Yadav — have been geld responsible by the extra chief metropolitan magistrate-19 of Jaipur, Parikshita Detha. (Sourced) All 9 accused — together with Ladnun MLA Mukesh Bhakar and Shahpura MLA Manish Yadav — have been geld responsible by the extra chief metropolitan magistrate-19 of Jaipur, Parikshita Detha, beneath a number of sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) together with Section 283 (hazard or obstruction in a public method or line of navigation). “We had been protesting for a very fair reason and for the welfare of the students. The then-BJP government had booked us unfairly and are now playing a political game to send us inside the jail. We will move to the higher court and challenge this order,” Yadav advised HT. The then-National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) leaders Bhakar, Yadav, and 7 others had gathered in entrance of University of Rajasthan on JLN Marg together with round 200 college students to protest in opposition to the method of the Common Entrance Test (CET) for admission to postgraduate programs on August 13, 2014. “The court sentenced them to one year imprisonment. However, they were also granted bail from the chief metropolitan magistrate’s court. They now have the option to file an appeal in the high court seeking a stay on the sentence. Each convict has one month to file the appeal,” prosecution officer Kavita Pingolia stated. “In the cases where the accused is sentenced to less than three years of imprisonment, he could use the power of 389 crpc and get bail by suspending the punishment only appeal in the higher court in a month. We will have to appeal in a higher court in a month. Otherwise, they must surrender before the court,” advocate of the accused Narendra Yadav stated. The 9 sentenced to 1 12 months of imprisonment embrace Congress’s Jhotwara candidate throughout the 2023 meeting election, Abhishek Chaudhary, together with Rajesh Meena, Ravi Kirad, Wasim Khan, Dron Yadav, Bhanu Pratap Singh, and Vidyadhar Meel, other than MLAs Bhakar and Yadav. “The local police were present there and the protest was going peacefully, maintaining all the law and order. However, the nine leaders along with all the other protesters had suddenly moved towards the JLN Marg and blocked it for 20 minutes (from 2.10 pm to 2.30 pm), causing heavy traffic across the city. An FIR was filed against them at the Gandhinagar police station under Section 147 and 283 IPC, following which a charge sheet was filed on August 11, 2016,” learn the order copy seen by HT. Also Read: UGC bars 3 Raj universities from enrolling PhD college students for five yrs It additional added, “The court is hereby charging all the accused with a ₹200 fine and sentencing a 15-day-long imprisonment for their offence under Section 283 IPC. They are also charged a ₹3,000 fine and sentenced to one year imprisonment for their offence under Section 147 IPC.” Yadav, the then pupil union president of Rajasthan University in 2014, was elected as an MLA from Jaipur’s Shahpura constituency for the primary time in 2023 by defeating the two-time MLA Alok Beniwal. Bhakar, a two-time MLA from Nagaur’s Ladnun constituency, was first elected as an MLA in 2018 by defeating three-time BJP MLA Thakur Manohar Singh and retained the seat once more in 2023. Bhakar, who additionally served because the state president of the Youth Congress in 2020, the state president of NSUI from 2013 to 2015, and the nationwide secretary of NSUI in 2017, was suspended from the meeting for six months on August 7, 2024, by Speaker Vasudev Devnani for his alleged “indecent behaviour” throughout the price range session. However, an official from the federal government stated, “The conviction might not pose any threat to their MLA designation. As per the Constitution, the MLAs could be disqualified from the assembly only when the sentence is for more than two years.”
