Mumbai, Mar 19 (UNI) The Bombay High Court on Wednesday suspended the sentence awarded to ex-MLA Omprakash alias Bacchu Kadu, a leader of Prahar Janshakti Party, in connection with the 2017 case for allegedly abusing and attempting to hit the then Nashik Municipal Commissioner, Abhishek Krishna.



According to a lawyer, Kadu's party was in an alliance with the than Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis-led government in Maharashtra. He was booked in 2017 by the Sarkarwada police in Nashik on allegations that he had abused and attempted to hit Commissioner Krishna.

The Nashik Sessions court had convicted him for committing an offence punishable under sections 353 (assault or use of criminal force on a public servant) and 504 (intentional insult) of the Indian Penal Code. He had been sentenced to suffer rigorous imprisonment for one year and to pay a certain amount of fine.

Kadu had then preferred an appeal before the Bombay High Court along with a plea praying for suspension of sentence, which came up for hearing before the bench of Justice Bharti Dangre.

After hearing Kadu and the prosecution, the bench said, "Since the sentence is minuscule in nature, pending the adjudication of the appeal by this Court, the sentence deserves to be suspended and the appellant is entitled to be released on bail on furnishing PR bond in the Sum of Rs 25,000 with one or more sureties in the like amount." UNI AAA SSP