New Delhi [India], September 24 (ANI): Former AAP MLA Prakash Jarwal has moved to the Delhi High Court difficult his conviction in a case of abetting a physician to commit suicide.
The trial courtroom had convicted Jarwal and Two others on this case in February 2024.
An FIR was lodged on the Neb Sarai police Station in 2020 for abetting Dr. Rajendra Singh. This petition got here for a listening to earlier than Justice Ravinder Dudeja (Special MP/MLA Court).
Justice Dudeja, on the request of Senior Advocate N. Hariharan, transferred the petition to a different bench that was listening to a petition in the identical case.
Senior Advocate N Hariharan appeared for Prakash Jarwal and submitted that one other petition is already pending earlier than the bench of Justice Amit Mahajan. He requested that the courtroom switch the petition to the bench of Justice Mahajan.
This matter is pending for arguements on sentence earlier than the Rouse Avenue courtroom.
In this matter, the petition of Kapil Nagar is pending earlier than the bench of Justice Mahajan. The courtroom had additionally requested the trial courtroom to not hear the arguements on sentence.
The High Court has already quashed the case and conviction in opposition to Harish Jarwal.
The Rouse Avenue courtroom on February 28, 2024, convicted then AAP MLA Prakash Jarwal and his affiliate Kapil Nagar for abetting a physician to commit suicide. They have additionally been held responsible of the offence of prison conspiracy for extortion and risk to the deceased Rajender Singh. The deceased was a physician and was concerned in offering water via tankers.
Special choose M Ok Nagpal held Prakash Jarwal and Kapil Nagar responsible of the offences of abetment to suicide, extortion, try to extortion, prison intimidation and prison conspiracy for extortion.
They have been held responsible below part 506 (Criminal Intimidation to kill), Part 2, below which the utmost punishment is upto seven years. The third accused, Harish Jarwal, was convicted of the offence of prison intimidation. The courtroom said that the prosecution had efficiently confirmed the allegations past an affordable doubt.
On November 11, 2021, the courtroom framed prices in opposition to Prakash Jarwal, Kapil Nagar and Harish in several sections of the IPC.
The courtroom had stated that the offences below Sections 120 B IPC learn with Sections 386 (punishment for Extortion), 384 (extortion) and 506 (Criminal intimidation) and offences below Section 384 learn with Section 120 B (Criminal Conspiracy) IPC, Section 386 learn with Section 120 B IPC and Section 506 learn with Section 120 B IPC and in addition below 306/34 IPC are prima facie made out in opposition to the accused Prakash Jarwal and Kapil Nagar.
The accused Harish was discharged for the offence below Sections 306 and 386 IPC, however he was charged for the offence below Section 506 IPC by the courtroom.
An FIR was registered based mostly on the criticism filed by Hemant Singh on 18.04.2020, whereby he said that his father, the late Rajender Singh, had been supplying water via tankers since 2005. The Delhi Jal Board had by no means harassed his father.
However, for the reason that accused, Prakash Jarwal, had received and turn out to be an MLA of the Aam Aadmi Party, he and one Kapil Nagar, who labored with him and others, began harassing his father for cash commonly, he alleged.
It was alleged that the accused, Kapil Nagar, on the occasion of the accused, Prakash Jarwal, used to obtain a month-to-month quantity and provides it to Prakash Jarwal. The accused Prakash Jarwal was a member of the Delhi Jal Board, and with out taking the month-to-month quantity, he didn’t enable the plying of their tankers with the Jal Board.
Complainant had said that if his father didn’t pay the month-to-month quantity to the accused Prakash Jarwal, he used to threaten his father and in addition threatenedto destroy him. His father used to commonly give lakhs of rupees to the accused Prakash Jarwal, who was harassing his father forcibly and mentally. His father had written about the identical in a diary. When his father opposed the giving of a month-to-month quantity, his tankers have been faraway from the Delhi Jal Board, about which his father made a criticism to the Executive Engineer, Delhi Jal Board, GK-I on 09.04.2020.
It was additionally said that the daddy of the complainant had pleaded with the accused Prakash Jarwal a number of instances to not harass him as he was a coronary heart affected person, however the accused Prakash Jarwal didn’t hear and saved harassing his father constantly, for which additionally they had a telephone recording.
It was additional said that the accused Prakash Jarwal, used his energy to get the fee of the deceased stopped. The father of the complainant had written in regards to the psychological harassment in his diary, and he had additionally talked about the quantity given to the accused Prakash Jarwal within the diary, which was taken forcibly.
It was alleged that because of the exploitation and strain, the deceased used to stay troubled and used to write down in regards to the cases in his diary.
It was additionally alleged that the daddy of the complainant had offered his ancestral land and brought a mortgage on the jewelry of his spouse, for which additionally they had a receipt, and on the occasion of the accused Prakash Jarwal, had given the cash to Kapil Nagar. (ANI)