SP MLA Vijma Yadav gets 18 months jail in attack on cops case in Prayagraj

PRAYAGRAJ: The MP-MLA court of Prayagraj on Thursday awarded 18 months jail term to SP MLA from Prayagraj's Pratappur assembly seat, Vijma Yadav, after convicting and holding her guilty in a criminal case of September 21, 2000, where she had allegedly attacked the police party along with her supporters. However, she won't lose her house membership as the sentence is of less than two years.
It was also in the criminal case that she along with her supporters had blocked the road, indulged in arson and threw stones at the police. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on her.
According to district government counsel (criminal), Gulab Chandra Agrahri, a criminal case was subsequently registered against Vijma Yadav and her supporters the same year under police station Sarai Inayat at Prayagraj under sections 147 (punishment for rioting), 332 (voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty), 353 (assault for criminal force deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and section 7 of Criminal Law Amendment Act.
Despite conviction, Vijma Yadav is not going to lose her membership of the house because the sentence awarded to her is less than two years. Due to this fact, she will not be disqualified from the membership of UP Assembly.
The Supreme Court in its 2013 judgment, given in the case filed by Lilly Thomas and another, had ruled that any MP, MLA or MLC convicted of a crime and given a minimum of two years' imprisonment, would lose the membership of the House with immediate effect, without being given three months' time for appeal, as was the case before.