Seven including former MP Umakant Yadav sentenced to life imprisonment, convicted in 27-year-old constable murder case

A local court in Jaunpur sentenced former MP Umakant Yadav to life imprisonment for the murder of a 27-year-old Government Railway Police (GRP) constable and attempt to murder three others. A local court in Jaunpur has sentenced seven people, including former MP of Fish City Lok Sabha constituency, Umakant Yadav, to life imprisonment in the GRP constable murder case.

District Government Advocate Anil Singh said that Jaunpur Additional District Sessions Judge Sharad Chandra Tripathi gave this decision on Monday after hearing both the sides. The court had on Saturday convicted seven people, including the former MP, as accused in this case. He said that Additional District Sessions Judge Sharad Chandra Tripathi pronounced this decision after hearing both the sides. He sentenced this sentence under sections 147, 148, 149, 332, 333, 324, 325, 427, 307, 302 and criminal law of IPC against the case under consideration in Special Judge MP MLA Court, Jaunpur State vs Umakant Yadav and others.

The court convicted the accused former MP Umakant Yadav, Bacchu Lal Yadav, Rajkumar, Dharmaraj, Subedar and Mahendra Prasad Verma and Sabhajit Pal. Accused Umakant Yadav and Bacchu Lal Yadav, Rajkumar, Dharmaraj, Subedar, Mahendra Prasad Verma and Sabhajit Pal were given life imprisonment under section 302, 10 years imprisonment under section 307, five years in section 337, two years in section 148. and sentenced to one year rigorous imprisonment under section 427. The court has also imposed fine on the culprits in this case. He said that a total of 19 witnesses were produced from the side of the prosecution. The matter was investigated by CBCID.

It is worth noting that in February 1995, constable Ajay Singh was murdered while rescuing Rajkumar Yadav, who was lodged in the Shahganj GRP lockup of Jaunpur. Another constable Lallan Singh, railway employee Nirmal Watson and railway passenger Bharat Lal were injured in the incident. Sepoy Raghunath Singh, posted in Shahganj GRP, had lodged an FIR that in February 1995, armed with rifle and revolver, accused Umakant Yadav along with his associates came to the GRP post. Umakant forcibly tried to free Rajkumar Yadav, who was locked up in the lockup.