BJP MLA Kanwar Lal Meena surrenders in Rajasthan court docket after a 3-year sentence in 2005 case

Bharatiya Janata Celebration MLA Kanwar Lal Meena, whose conviction and three years’ sentence in a 20-year-old case was upheld by the Rajasthan Excessive Courtroom earlier this month, surrendered within the trial court docket at Manoharthana in Jhawalar district on Wednesday. No choice has been taken as but on his disqualification from the Meeting.

The Supreme Courtroom had lately directed Meena to give up inside two weeks, whereas dismissing his particular go away petition (SLP). Elected from Baran district’s Anta, Meena was sentenced to a few years’ rigorous imprisonment in December 2020 in a case of brandishing a revolver at an officer with life threats and damaging public property.

Accompanied by his legal professionals and supporters, Meena arrived on the court docket of Further Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace in Manoharthana on Wednesday morning. The court docket despatched him to judicial custody, after which he was taken to the city’s group well being centre for a medical examination. He was later shifted to the Aklera sub-jail.

‘Full religion’

Numerous police personnel and BJP employees have been current on the court docket premises through the give up. Questioned by journalists about his future transfer, Meena stated he had “full religion” within the judiciary and his legal professionals would determine about submitting an attraction.

A two-time MLA, Meena first received the election from Manoharthana in 2013, and later from Anta in 2023. He was not elected to the Meeting on the time of the crime in 2005 and already had 15 legal circumstances towards him. In 2016, he led a mob which allegedly attacked the activists of Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan, based by Magsaysay Award winner Aruna Roy, throughout a march in Jhalawar district.

Although Meena was initially acquitted by the trial court docket, a classes court docket in Aklera later convicted him in December 2020 after discovering him responsible of obstructing the federal government work, intimidating the federal government officers and vandalising property. His sentence for 3 and two years, respectively, on completely different costs, was upheld by the HC on Might 1.

Shameful, says Congress

In Jaipur, Congress MLA and Chief of the Opposition Tika Ram Jully described the give up as a “shameful episode”. “It is a black spot on our democracy. It has occurred for the primary time within the historical past of Rajasthan ,” he stated.