New Delhi: BJP legislator Vikram Saini and 11 others were sentenced on Tuesday to two years imprisonment in a Muzaffarnagar riots case by a special MP/MLA court which convicted them of rioting and other offences and also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 each.
Special Judge Gopal Upadhyay acquitted 15 other accused in the case for lack of evidence.
The BJP MLA and 26 others were facing trial for their alleged role in the violence at Kawal village when a crowd was returning after the cremation of two Jat youths.
A local court in UP's Muzaffarnagar convicts BJP MLA Vikram Saini amd 11 others for rioting in 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots case. They have have been awarded with 2 years jail sentence and Rs 10k fine. pic.twitter.com/j7APuowZOX
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The killing of the two youths – Gaurav and Sachin – and one Shahnawaz triggered led to riots in Muzaffarnagar and adjoining areas in August and September 2013, claiming 60 lives and leaving 40,000 people – many of them Muslims – displaced. Saini was then the pradhan of Kawal village.
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