An MP-MLA court has sentenced Jan Adhikar Party chief Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav to one year in jail in the stone pelting case.
The court on Wednesday convicted Pappu for pelting stones at a police team in Fatuha town on March 16, 2003, and imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on him.
“The MP-MLA court has announced the quantum of punishment to Pappu Yadav in a 2003 Dharna protest and stone pelting case. He was sentenced to one year in jail. However, the court gave him interim bail,” said Ajay Kumar, lawyer of Pappu Yadav.
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During the hearing of the case, the prosecution registered statements from five witnesses against Pappu Yadav.
Pappu, along with 200 supporters, was staging a dharna demanding the recovery of a missing youth. However, when police tried to remove him and his supporters from the highway, they allegedly pelted stones at the police team in which few of the cops got injured.
After the incident, an FIR was registered against Pappu and his supporters by the Fatuha police under various sections of IPC.
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