Uttar Pradesh: Jailed don and four time MLA Vijay Mishra awarded 15-year imprisonment in rape case

VARANASI: Bhadohi district's fast track court (MP-MLA) awarded 15 year imprisonment and fine of Rs one lakh to jailed mafia don and four time MLA Vijay Mishra in gang rape case.


Providing details of FTC’s(fast track court) judgement in this case to TOI, Bhadohi’s district government counsel (criminal) Dinesh Pandey said, “FTC’s (MP-MLA) judge Subodh Singh Mishra awarded 15 year imprisonment to Vijay Mishra and also slapped a penalty of Rs one lakh in a rape case lodged by a woman singer of Varanasi in 2020".

"Court awarded him this punishment under section 376(2)(N) (Physical relations on Promise to Marry). Besides, he has also been awarded two year imprisonment and fine of Rs 10,000 on the charges of criminal intimidation. Both terms would run concurrently," he added.

The FTC had convicted Mishra in this case on Friday while his son Vishnu Mishra and grandson Vikas alias Jyoti Mishra were acquitted in this case. Mishra is currently lodged at Agra jail with 83 criminal cases including of murder, loot, kidnapping, rape, fraud, extortion, property grabbing and others in his account. Mishra, who was brought from Agra jail amidst tight security arrangements, remained present in the court to hear the judgement.

A woman singer of a locality under Jaitpura police station in Varanasi had lodged a gang rape case with Gopiganj police station in Bhadohi in October 2020 alleging that she had been called to perform songs at the residence of Mishra in 2014 and when she was changing her clothes before the programme, he entered her room and raped after issuing threats of dire consequences. Later, he asked Vishnu and Vikas to drop her at her home but the duo took her to other building and raped her, she added.

The woman complainant had further alleged that in 2015, she was called by Mishra in Allapur area in Allahabad and later at a hotel of Varanasi where he raped her. She added that Mishra had made obscene video clips and also used to make video calls to force her for virtual sex. Upset over these activities, she had started living in Mumbai. She had also attached many clips and screenshots of her mobile with her complaint.

(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)

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