An MP/MLA court docket in Uttar Pradesh has awarded a two-300 and sixty five days penal advanced sentence to Bollywood actor and Congress chief Raj Babbar in a case though-provoking the assault of a polling officer. The FIR used to be lodged in Wazirganj police residing on Could possibly 2, 1996 by the polling officer.
The court docket also imposed a handsome of Rs 8,500 on Raj Babbar. The actor-became-politician has been convicted of obstruction of executive work and assault.
Raj Babbar used to be fresh in the court docket when the verdict used to be pronounced.
1996 ASSAULT CASE
At that time, Raj Babbar used to be in the Samajwadi Get collectively and used to be contesting the elections from Lucknow. All over the time of the elections, a verbal spat had broken out between the two which resulted in the assault. He used to be learned guilty of roughing up a executive officer at some stage in the 1996 Lok Sabha elections but received bail that time.
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A police grievance used to be filed against Raj Babbar and Arvind Yadav against sections 143, 332, 353, 323, 504, 188 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Except for the Representation of the Folks Act, the designate sheet used to be filed in court docket beneath the Criminal Law Amendment Act.
He used to be convicted for voluntarily inflicting difficulty to discourage a public servant from performing his obligation and three diverse offences.
(With inputs from Shyam)
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