Maharashtra Minister Manikrao Kokate Sentenced To Two Years In Jail For 1995 Dishonest Case – News18
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The court docket acquitted two different accused within the case Kokate might presumably entice disqualification as an MLA if he doesn’t get any reduction from the excessive court docket
Maharashtra Agriculture Minister and NCP chief Manikrao Kokate. (Picture through X/@kokate_manikrao)
Maharashtra Agriculture Minister and NCP chief Manikrao Kokate was on Thursday sentenced to 2 years’ imprisonment by a court docket right here in a 1995 case the place he was charged with submitting faux paperwork to get flats beneath a authorities quota.
The minister instructed reporters later that the court docket had granted him bail, and he would transfer the Excessive Courtroom in opposition to the judgement.
The Nashik district and classes court docket additionally convicted his brother Sunil Kokate in the identical case, registered in 1995 on the grievance of former minister, late T S Dighole. The court docket additionally imposed a wonderful of Rs 50,000 every on the 2 brothers.
The court docket acquitted two different accused within the case Kokate might presumably entice disqualification as an MLA if he doesn’t get any reduction from the excessive court docket.
Speaking to reporters, the minister mentioned the case was filed by Dighole with whom he had political enmity.
“I’ve determined to file an enchantment in opposition to the decision. We are going to do all the things in accordance with the legislation….we’ll go to the Excessive Courtroom. I’ve been granted bail by the classes court docket,” he mentioned.
As per the prosecution, Kokate and his brother had been allotted two flats meant for the Low Revenue Group (LIG) on School Street in Yeolakar Mala space right here beneath the Chief Minister’s 10 per cent discretionary quota. To be eligible, they made false claims of belonging to the LIG class and never proudly owning a home within the metropolis, it was alleged.
After Dighole approached the police, a case of dishonest, forgery and different offences beneath the Indian Penal Code was registered in opposition to the Kokate brothers and two others at Sarkarwada police station right here.
The rival NCP (SP) demanded that Kokate ought to resign following the decision.
He can be the second minister of the Ajit Pawar-led NCP within the BJP-led state authorities to seek out himself in bother. NCP chief and cupboard minister Dhananjay Munde is going through the warmth after his shut aide was arrested in an extortion case associated to the brutal homicide of a village sarpanch in Beed district in December 2024.
(This story has not been edited by News18 workers and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – PTI)
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Nashik, India, India
