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Lucknow, Dec 22: Ramdular Gond, a BJP MLA, has been disqualified from the Uttar Pradesh assembly after receiving a 25-year rigorous imprisonment sentence for raping a girl nine years ago, official sources reported on Saturday.
Gond was also fined Rs 10 lakh by Ahsan Ullah Khan, the additional district and sessions judge of the MP-MLA court in Sonbhadra. The rape survivor woman who is now a married mother of an eight-year-old daughter, would receive the fined money.
The Special Public Prosecutor, Satyaprakash Tripathi, stated that on December 12, the court found the MLA from the Duddhi seat, which is designated for Scheduled Tribes, guilty and three days later declared the quantum of punishment.
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The Representation of the People Act states that a legislator serving a two-year or longer term to jail will be disqualified “from the date of such conviction” and will continue to be disqualified for an additional six years following their release from prison.
Case under POCSO Act, IPC sections 376 and 506
The rape incident occurred in 2014, and upon the brother of the victim’s complaint, a case was filed against Gond under the provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, as well as under IPC sections 376 (rape) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation).
Tripathi stated that Gond was not an MLA at the time, and his wife was a gram pradhan.
After Gond was elected as an MLA, the case’s trial was moved from the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO Act) court to the MP-MLA court.
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