New Delhi: The special court judge who had granted bail to rape accused Samajwadi Party leader Gayatri Prajapati has been suspended. A departmental inquiry has also been ordered against him.
On Friday, the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court cancelled Prajapati's bail, granted by a POCSO court. The decision to suspend the judge was taken by the High Court administration.
Prajapati was arrested from Lucknow on March 15 after the Supreme Court’s directives and was sent to judicial custody. The SP leader had sought a Narco test soon after his arrest and denied the charges against him, calling them politically motivated.
The woman had said in her complaint that she was gang-raped from October 2014 to July 2016. When the accused tried to molest her daughter, she wrote a letter in October 2016 to the DGP demanding action.
In 2016, Prajapati had been sacked by then chief minister Akhilesh Yadav during the Samajwadi Party family feud but was later reinstated in the council of ministers.
Comments
0 comment