NAGPUR: In a jolt to minister of state for education Bachchu Kadu, a judicial magistrate first class (JMFC) court at Chandur Bazar in Amravati district on Friday awarded him two months rigorous imprisonment (RI). Kadu was accused of concealing information in his 2014 assembly election affidavit about owning a flat in Mumbai.
Judge LC Wadekar also imposed a cost of Rs25,000 on the Achalpur MLA, who also holds many portfolios in the state cabinet, including women and child development, water resources, other backward classes, social and educationally backward classes.