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Muzaffarnagar (UP), October 11
BJP legislator Vikram Saini and 11 others had been sentenced to 2 years imprisonment in a 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots case by a particular MP/MLA court docket on Tuesday.
Special Judge Gopal Upadhyay convicted them for rioting and different offences and likewise imposed a high quality of Rs 10,000 every.
The court docket acquitted 15 different accused within the case for lack of proof.
Saini, who’s the BJP MLA from Khatauli in Uttar Pradesh, mentioned that he’ll file an attraction towards the decision.
The MLA and others had been taken into custody and later granted bail on furnishing two sureties every of Rs 25,000 for approaching the excessive court docket.
The 12 had been convicted beneath IPC sections 336 (act endangering life or private security of others), 353 (Assault or prison pressure to discourage public servant from discharging his obligation), 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting armed with lethal weapons), and 149 (illegal meeting).
Vikram Saini was additionally booked beneath the National Security Act.
The BJP MLA and 26 others had been going through trial for his or her alleged function within the violence at Kawal village when a crowd was returning after the cremation of two Jat youths.
The killing of the 2 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 individuals displaced.
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