The Allahabad HC Today (April 27th) granted bail to former MP Dhananjay Singh but refused his plea to suspend or stay a 7-year imprisonment sentence passed by a district court in a 2020 kidnapping and extortion case. After the HC order, Singh will be released on bail but he cannot contest the election.
Former Member of Parliament Dhananjay Singh has been sentenced to a seven-year jail term by the MP–MLA court of Jaunpur on Tuesday. The court, led by Additional Sessions Judge Sharad Kumar Tripathi, found Singh and his close aide Satish Vikram Singh guilty of kidnapping, extortion, and criminal conspiracy in a case lodged in May 2020. […]