Former Madhya Pradesh CM Digvijay Singh Sentenced One Year Jail- term in Ujjain Assault Case

GG News Bureau

Indore, 27^th March. Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh sentenced to one year by Indore District Court in Ujjain assault case

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Indore district court on Saturday sentenced Congress leader Digvijaya Singh, and six others to one year’s rigorous imprisonment in a case related to a clash with protesting workers of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) in 2011.

Later, the court granted bail to all the convicts on a surety of Rs 25,000 each.

“This is a 10-year-old case in which my name was not even in the FIR, but was added later under political pressure. I will appeal in the High Court” Digvijay Singh said.

Judge Mukesh Nath convicted Digvijaya Singh and Ex-Ujjain MP Premchand Guddu under Indian Penal Code sections 325 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 109 (abetment to assault).

Anant Narayan, Jaisingh Darbar, Aslam Lala and Dilip Chaudhary were convicted under IPC section 325.

Mahesh Parmar (Congress MLA from Tarana), Mukesh Bhati and Hemant Chauhan were acquitted for lack of evidence.

The court also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 each on the convicts. Rahul Sharma, the lawyer of Digvijaya Singh and Premchand Guddu, said they were accused of instigating others to beat up BJYM activist Ritesh Khabia.

“Prosecution documents show Khabia had injury to the right hand, but the fact is he had a broken bone in his left hand,” he said.

According to police, BJYM activists tried to show black flags to Singh on July 17, 2011, when his convoy was passing through Jiwajiganj area of Ujjain, which led to a clash.