Allahabad HC turns down bail of BSP MP Atul Rai in Gangsters’ Act case

PRAYAGRAJ: The Allahabad high court has rejected the bail application of sitting BSP MP from Ghosi Lok Sabha seat, Atul Rai, in a criminal case registered against him under the Gangsters’ Act at police station Lanka of Varanasi in 2021.
Rejecting the bail application of Atul Rai on March 3, Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh observed in the order that the accused-applicant has to his credit so far as many as 24 criminal cases, which include cases of kidnapping, murder, rape and other heinous offences. “I find that every time the accused-applicant Atul Rai has been enlarged on bail, he has committed one heinous offence after another.
Therefore, he does not fulfil the conditions as laid down in section 19(4) of the Gangsters Act, which provides that while granting bail, the court is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for believing that he is not guilty of such offence and that he is not likely to commit any offence while on bail,” the court added.
Earlier, this court while rejecting the bail application of accused Atul Rail on June 7, 2022, in respect of an offence wherein the victim of rape and her friend had committed suicide within the precinct of the Supreme Court of India on August 16, 2021, observed that the accused applicant is a ‘babubali’ and a criminal-turned-politician. Atul Rai was an accused in the rape case.
In the same order dated June 7, 2022, this court had observed, “Noticing growing trend of criminals occupying the status of law-makers in Parliament and disturbing phenomenon in the electoral politics and grave danger to the democracy.”