The Allahabad High Court has suspended the two-year prison sentence awarded by a lower court to disqualify BJP MLA Vikram Saini in a 20🔥13 Muzaffarnagar riots case and ordered to li๊st the hearing for suspension of his conviction for Monday.
The high court also gran🦋ted bail to Saini, a former MLA from Khatauli in Muzaffarnagar, in the same case. The high court was hearing an appeal by Saini ൩challenging his conviction by a special court.
꧟On Thursday, hearing the appeal by Saini, Justice Samit Gopal said, “Prayer for bail/sentence is allow✱ed.”
Counsel for Saini submitted in the high court that there is no credible evidence against him and there is no witness to support the prosecution case. Further, it is a case of no injury, the counsel sa♌id.
On October 10 this year, a special MP/MLA court in Muzaffarnagar sentence✨d Saini and 10 others to two years imprisonment in a case relating to the 2013 Muzaffarna🦩gar riots.
In the present order, the high court directed Saini's release on bail on his furnishing a personal bond with two sureties each in the lik🉐e amount to the satisfaction of the court concerned🐻.
Neaꦅrly a month after Saini's conviction in the Muzaffarnagar riots case, the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly on November 13 di🍸squalified him as MLA and also declared as vacant his Khatauli seat, for which a bypoll is scheduled on December 5.
