A special court in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday sentenced BJP MLA from Khatauli, Vikram Saini, and 11 others to two years in prison for rioting and arson in a case linked to the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots. The MLA, however, received bail soon after the judgment was passed.
The riots had left at least 62 people dead and 50,000 displaced in the western Uttar Pradesh district.
“Saini along with 27 others were booked in the case under Section 147, 148, 149,307, 336, 504, 553 and 506 of IPC. The court had earlier acquitted the accused from Section 307,” government counsel Narender Sharma said.
