A special court in Lucknow has convicted former UP minister Gayatri Prajapati in Chitrakoot gang rape case along with two other co-accused. .Special Judge Pawan Kumar Rai of hearing cases against MP/MLAs found Prajapati guilty and posted the case for Friday on deciding the quantum of sentence..In 2017, a woman from Chitrakoot district had accused Prajapati and other co-accused of gang rape.Apart from Prajapati, Vikas Verma, Amarendra Singh, Chandrapal, Rupeshwar, Ashish Shukla, and Ashok Tiwari were also charged in this case..In February 2017, after Supreme Court's intervention, a case was registered against Prajapati and other accused at the Gautampalli police station in Lucknow.Later, all the accused in the case were arrested and sent to jail.In September 2020, after spending 41 months in Lucknow jail, he was granted an interim two months’ bail by the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court on medical grounds.Later, a Supreme Court Bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy and MR Shah had set aside the interim bail noting that the High Court erred in granting the same as all the material on record were not considered by the High Court.
A special court in Lucknow has convicted former UP minister Gayatri Prajapati in Chitrakoot gang rape case along with two other co-accused. .Special Judge Pawan Kumar Rai of hearing cases against MP/MLAs found Prajapati guilty and posted the case for Friday on deciding the quantum of sentence..In 2017, a woman from Chitrakoot district had accused Prajapati and other co-accused of gang rape.Apart from Prajapati, Vikas Verma, Amarendra Singh, Chandrapal, Rupeshwar, Ashish Shukla, and Ashok Tiwari were also charged in this case..In February 2017, after Supreme Court's intervention, a case was registered against Prajapati and other accused at the Gautampalli police station in Lucknow.Later, all the accused in the case were arrested and sent to jail.In September 2020, after spending 41 months in Lucknow jail, he was granted an interim two months’ bail by the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court on medical grounds.Later, a Supreme Court Bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy and MR Shah had set aside the interim bail noting that the High Court erred in granting the same as all the material on record were not considered by the High Court.
