Pioneer News Service | Faizabad
Within a fortnight of the pronouncement of life imprisonment to ruling party MLA Shekhar Tewari in the PWD engineer Manoj Gupta murder-case, another BSP legislator and former Minister Anand Sen and two others were sentenced to life imprisonment by a special court on Tuesday for their involvement in abduction and murder of a Dalit girl - Shashi - in 2007.
Pronouncing the verdict in a Faizabad court, Special Judge (SC/ST) Matamber Singh also imposed a penalty of `20,000 each on Anand Sen and his driver Vijay Sen and `15,000 on Seema Azad, an aide of the former Minister, under different Sections of IPC. The dalit girl Shashi, a third year law student in Faizabad, went missing on October 22, 2007.
The court had convicted the three accused on Tuesday and had decided to pronounce the quantum of punishment on Wednesday but on the appeal of Sen's counsel, the verdict was delivered on Tuesday itself.
Earlier, Seema Azad, who had been out on bail, was taken into custody on court's order, while the other two accused- Anand Sen and his driver Vijay Sen - are already in jail.
Anand Sen is BSP MLA from Milkipur Assembly constituency in Faizabad. Vijay Sen is already serving life imprisonment in another murder case.
The verdict in the case has come after a trial of three years during which 32 witnesses, including two journalists, testified before the special court in Faizabad.
Anand Sen (48), son of Samajwadi Party leader Mitrasen Yadav, had to resign from his post as State Minister for Food Processing in November 2007 after his role in the case came to the fore. After the recovery of Shashi's wrist watch from Gomti river in Sultanpur, police suspected that she was murdered. However, her body has not been recovered yet.
In the FIR lodged at Kumarganj police station, Shashi's father Yogendra Prasad, an employee of Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Awadh University, had accused Anand Sen, a distant relative and driver Vijay Sen, of having committed the crime. Seema Azad, a classmate of Shashi and believed to be a close associate of Anand Sen, was also named in the case.
Anand Sen's name figured as a prime suspect in the chargesheet filed in the court by the police on the basis of narco analysis test of Vijay Sen. The Allahabad High Court had rejected the bail plea of the BSP MLA in the case. Meanwhile, Shashi's father Yogendra Prasad welcomed the court's verdict saying that justice was done.
The BSP welcomed the order. "We welcome the court's decision to award life sentence to former Mnister Anand Sen and the two others. Sen was immediately sacked from the party and also from his Ministerial post as soon as his name cropped up in the murder case", a party release issued here said.
Within a fortnight of the pronouncement of life imprisonment to ruling party MLA Shekhar Tewari in the PWD engineer Manoj Gupta murder-case, another BSP legislator and former Minister Anand Sen and two others were sentenced to life imprisonment by a special court on Tuesday for their involvement in abduction and murder of a Dalit girl - Shashi - in 2007.
Pronouncing the verdict in a Faizabad court, Special Judge (SC/ST) Matamber Singh also imposed a penalty of `20,000 each on Anand Sen and his driver Vijay Sen and `15,000 on Seema Azad, an aide of the former Minister, under different Sections of IPC. The dalit girl Shashi, a third year law student in Faizabad, went missing on October 22, 2007.
The court had convicted the three accused on Tuesday and had decided to pronounce the quantum of punishment on Wednesday but on the appeal of Sen's counsel, the verdict was delivered on Tuesday itself.
Earlier, Seema Azad, who had been out on bail, was taken into custody on court's order, while the other two accused- Anand Sen and his driver Vijay Sen - are already in jail.
Anand Sen is BSP MLA from Milkipur Assembly constituency in Faizabad. Vijay Sen is already serving life imprisonment in another murder case.
The verdict in the case has come after a trial of three years during which 32 witnesses, including two journalists, testified before the special court in Faizabad.
Anand Sen (48), son of Samajwadi Party leader Mitrasen Yadav, had to resign from his post as State Minister for Food Processing in November 2007 after his role in the case came to the fore. After the recovery of Shashi's wrist watch from Gomti river in Sultanpur, police suspected that she was murdered. However, her body has not been recovered yet.
In the FIR lodged at Kumarganj police station, Shashi's father Yogendra Prasad, an employee of Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Awadh University, had accused Anand Sen, a distant relative and driver Vijay Sen, of having committed the crime. Seema Azad, a classmate of Shashi and believed to be a close associate of Anand Sen, was also named in the case.
Anand Sen's name figured as a prime suspect in the chargesheet filed in the court by the police on the basis of narco analysis test of Vijay Sen. The Allahabad High Court had rejected the bail plea of the BSP MLA in the case. Meanwhile, Shashi's father Yogendra Prasad welcomed the court's verdict saying that justice was done.
The BSP welcomed the order. "We welcome the court's decision to award life sentence to former Mnister Anand Sen and the two others. Sen was immediately sacked from the party and also from his Ministerial post as soon as his name cropped up in the murder case", a party release issued here said.
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