HC cancels gang-rape accused ex-MLA’s bail
CONTEMPT CASE: ADDL CS SUMMONED
PRAYAGRAJ: The Allahabad high court on Monday cancelled the bail of former MLA Tajendra Sagar alias Yogendra Sagar and directed him to surrender before police by April 1, 2019 failing which he would be arrested .
Sagar was allegedly involved in a 2008 gang rape case. An FIR was registered at police station Bilsi of Badaun district in this connection. The bail cancellation order was passed by justice Sudhir Agarwal on an application filed by father of the rape victim. It was alleged in the FIR that on April 23, 2008, the victim was on her way to appearing in her BA LUCKNOW: The Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court has summoned Mahesh Kumar Gupta, principal secretary (now addl chief secretary), sectt administration, UP, on March 26, for a hearing on his punishment in a 2018 contempt case. Justice Vivek Chaudhary passed the order on a contempt petition filed by Dr Kishore Tandon and eight others , alleging wilful and deliberate violation of a court order dated September 21, 2017, passed in connection with the seniority list of review officers.
examination when she was forcibly taken into a car by the then The contempt petition was heard by the court on July 10, 2018 and an order was passed, finding Gupta guilty of deliberate violation of the court order. On Monday, Gupta ‘s counsel again requested that hearing on the petition be deferred till disposal of special appeal. The petitioners’ counsel opposed it. Refusing the request for adjournment of hearing, the court directed Mahesh Kumar Gupta be present in court on March 26 for a hearing on his punishment. MLA with the help of one Neeraj Sharma. The girl was drugged and moved to many places and was gang-raped by the MLA and the other accused. The bail cancellation application alleged that after Sagar surrendered in May 2014, he was granted bail within three days but after this, he did not appear for trial . The court found that despite NBW issued against him, he had been absconding and surrendered in March 2014, only when the court directed the state police officials to either appear before it or arrest the accused . “Even after 5 years since former MLA was released on bail, trial of the case could not be completed and it is a fit case of misuse of bail and also that bail granted to MLA deserves to be cancelled”, the court observed.