High court stays bail granted to Gayatri Prajapati in rape case
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The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Friday issued a stay order on the bail granted to former UP minister Gayatri Prajapati, who is accused in a rape case.Prajapati and two other accomplices had been given bail by a POCSO court earlier this week in connection with the rape case that had rocked the state some months ago during the Samajwadi Party rule.
An FIR was registered against 49-year-old Prajapati and six others on February 17 on a Supreme Court directive. Prajapati had then been a minister in the Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar PradeshAfter being on the run for nearly a month, Prajapati was arrested in Lucknow on March 15 and was sent to jail for allegedly raping a woman and attempting to rape her minor daughter in 2014. The six others had been arrested earlier.
Currently, the tainted former minister is still in custody, after a local court ordered him to be taken into judicial remand on two separate case, a day after his bail had been approved.