Tag: Vikram Saini

  • Day after Muzaffarnagar riots conviction, BJP MLA Vikram Saini gets acquittal in another case

    By PTI

    MUZAFFARNAGAR: BJP legislator Vikram Saini was on Wednesday acquitted in connection with a case of inciting communal tension, a day after he was awarded a two-year jail term in an unrelated 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots case.

    Special MP-MLA court judge Mayank Jaiswal acquitted Saini for lack of evidence in the case.

    According to prosecution officer Niraj Singh, police had registered the latest case against Saini under sections Indian Penal Code sections 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups on ground of religion) and 295 (injuring or defiling place of worship) at Kawal village in Jansath police station area on February 21, 2013.

    This case was registered months before the Muzaffarnagar riots.

    On Tuesday, the Special Judge Gopal Upadhyay of the same court had convicted Saini and 11 others for rioting and other offences and also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 each.

    They were granted bail the same day after submitting sureties. The court had acquitted 15 other accused in the riots case for lack of evidence. Saini, who is the BJP MLA from Khatauli in Uttar Pradesh, had said he will file an appeal against the verdict.

    The 12 were convicted under IPC sections 336 (act endangering life or personal safety of others), 353 (Assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharging his duty), 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting armed with deadly weapons), and 149 (unlawful assembly).

    The BJP MLA and 26 others were facing trial for their alleged role in the violence at Kawal village when a crowd was returning after the cremation of two Jat youths.

    The killing of the two youths — Gaurav and Sachin — and one Shahnawaz triggered the communal clashes in Muzaffarnagar and adjoining areas in August and September 2013, claiming 60 lives and leaving 40,000 people displaced.

    MUZAFFARNAGAR: BJP legislator Vikram Saini was on Wednesday acquitted in connection with a case of inciting communal tension, a day after he was awarded a two-year jail term in an unrelated 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots case.

    Special MP-MLA court judge Mayank Jaiswal acquitted Saini for lack of evidence in the case.

    According to prosecution officer Niraj Singh, police had registered the latest case against Saini under sections Indian Penal Code sections 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups on ground of religion) and 295 (injuring or defiling place of worship) at Kawal village in Jansath police station area on February 21, 2013.

    This case was registered months before the Muzaffarnagar riots.

    On Tuesday, the Special Judge Gopal Upadhyay of the same court had convicted Saini and 11 others for rioting and other offences and also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 each.

    They were granted bail the same day after submitting sureties. The court had acquitted 15 other accused in the riots case for lack of evidence. Saini, who is the BJP MLA from Khatauli in Uttar Pradesh, had said he will file an appeal against the verdict.

    The 12 were convicted under IPC sections 336 (act endangering life or personal safety of others), 353 (Assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharging his duty), 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting armed with deadly weapons), and 149 (unlawful assembly).

    The BJP MLA and 26 others were facing trial for their alleged role in the violence at Kawal village when a crowd was returning after the cremation of two Jat youths.

    The killing of the two youths — Gaurav and Sachin — and one Shahnawaz triggered the communal clashes in Muzaffarnagar and adjoining areas in August and September 2013, claiming 60 lives and leaving 40,000 people displaced.

  • Slogans raised against BJP MLA Vikram Saini

    By PTI

    MUZAFFARNAGAR:  BJP MLA Vikram Saini faced the ire of people in Munwarpur village here who forced him to return to his car and leave the venue.

    The villagers raised slogans against Saini, who had visited the village on Wednesday as part of election campaigning.

    In a video of the incident which has gone viral on social media, the Khatauli MLA can be seen getting back to his car in anger after the protest.

    He later told reporters that those who opposed his visit were under the influence of alcohol.

    Uttar Pradesh goes to polls in seven phases beginning February 10.

  • Khatauli BJP MLA Vikram Saini acquitted in 2013 Muzaffarnagar riot case

    By PTI

    MUZAFFARNAGAR: A BJP MLA facing trial for his alleged role in the 2013 Muzaffarnagar communal riots case was on Friday acquitted by a special court here for the lack of evidence.

    Special Judge Gopal Upadhyay, heading a court for the trial of lawmakers, acquitted Khatauli MLA Vikram Saini, along with 11 others, ruling that the prosecution has failed to substantiate the charges of rioting and arson against them.

    The MLA and 11 others had been facing the trial in a criminal case involving rioting, arson and issuance of threat to a public servant in Kawal village under Jansath police station in Muzaffarnagar district.

    In the FIR lodged at the Jansath police station by Kawal village chowkidar Ishtiaq on August 27, Saini, the then Kawal village pradhan, and his associates were accused of setting ablaze the car of a village resident, Sarfaraz, and provoking breach of peace by threatening him and others, including the chowkidar.

    According to the FIR lodged against them, they had allegedly set afire the car after returning from the cremation of three youths – Gaurav, Sachin and Shahnawaz – of the village killed earlier in a communal clash in the village.

    In the communal riots triggered by the killings of the three youths of the Kawal village, 60 people had been killed while over 40,000 people had left the district.