Gayatri Prajapati's Lucknow properties worth crores attached; 10 other 'benami assets' on radar
India | July 27, 2022 7:49 ISTGayatri Prajapati's several properties and bank balances were earlier also attached by the Enforcement Directorate
Gayatri Prajapati's several properties and bank balances were earlier also attached by the Enforcement Directorate
A key member of the Akhilesh Yadav's Cabinet, holding portfolios of the transport and mining ministries, Gayatri Prajapati was arrested in March 2017 on charges of raping the woman and trying to rape her minor daughter as well.
Former Samajwadi Party Minister Gayatri Prajapati has another FIR lodged against him on the complaint of a rape complainant's former lawyer Dinesh Chandra Tripathi, police said on Friday.
The girl and her mother were allegedly raped by the former minister and his aides. The accused were arrested on the directives of the Supreme Court in March 2017. The girl late on Wednesday uploaded her video statement on the social media. She appeared scared as she said she was not only a victim in the case but is also a witness and she feared for her life.
Prajapati, who is under judicial custody in Lucknow Jail in an alleged gangrape case, was recently shifted to Lucknow's King George's Medical College after he complained of illness.
Trouble seems to be in store for former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav as the CBI has booked his then ministerial colleague Gayatri Prajapati and several IAS offiers in alleged illegal sand mining case in Uttar Pradesh's Fatehpur district.
In Uttar Pradesh mining scam, the CBI has registered two fresh cases naming four IAS officers and former minister Gayatri Prajapati as accused and carried out searches at 12 locations in the state.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Sandhya Srivastava, while granting bail, directed that the accused be released on furnishing two sureties of Rs 20,000 each and a personal bond of the same amount.
Nutan Thakur had alleged that Gayatri Prajapati had managed to get false criminal cases registered against her and her husband Amitabh Thakur.
Uma Shanker Sharma, the judge of the special court, fixed August 1 as the next date of hearing wherein evidence would be submitted against Prajapati.
The victim had alleged that she was repeatedly raped by the accused on the pretext of allotting a mining licence and when the accused cast evil eyes on her daughter, she had to lodge a case.
A Lucknow judge's appointment was recalled by the Supreme Court collegium after allegation of corruption in awarding bail to Gayatri Prajapati.
The victim, a Chitrakoot-based woman corporator, had alleged that Prajapati and his aides had raped her and attempted to molest her minor daughter in 2014.
In a major blow to former Uttar Pradesh minister Gayatri Prajapti, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Friday cancelled the bail given by Lucknow’s session court to him and other accused in an alleged rape case
Prajapati and his two accomplices were granted bail by the special court for Protection of Children against Sexual Offences (POCSO) last month.
Taking a grim view of the bail granted by Justice Om Prakash Mishra to former Uttar Pradesh Minister Gayatri Prajapati, accused in a gang rape case, the Allahabad High Court has suspended the judge.
The reprieve given by a special court to former Uttar Pradesh minister Gayatri Prajapati in a rape case proved to be shortlived as a court here today remanded him in judicial custody in a separate case.
An FIR was registered against Prajapati and six others on February 17 on a directive of the Supreme Court.
After days of hide and seek, gang-rape accused Samajwadi Party leader Gayatri Prajapati was finally arrested in Lucknow early this morning.
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