A court in Rajasthan’s Behror town has sentenced Congress MLA from Chaksu, Ved Prakash Solanki to one year in jail and imposed a fine of ₹55 lakh on him in a 2015 cheque bounce case. Mr. Solanki, who is contesting from the same seat in the 2023 Assembly election, was found guilty of giving a cheque for ₹35 lakh to an individual, for which the payment was declined by the bank eight years ago.
Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Nikhil Singh handed down the sentence and the fine to Mr. Solanki on Tuesday, while giving him one month’s time to file an appeal against the judgment. The court ordered the legislator to pay ₹54 lakh from the total penalty to the complainant Mohar Singh Yadav.
Mr. Yadav, a retired physical training instructor in the State government’s Education Department, gave ₹35 lakh in cash to Mr. Solanki for purchasing a plot of land in Bansur in June 2015. When Mr. Solanki did not get the plot registered in Mr. Yadav’s name for several days, the latter demanded his money back.
