Kasganj (Uttar Pradesh): Former BSP MLA Hasrat Ullah Sherwani has been sent to jail by the Special Court in Kasganj district of Uttar Pradesh. The court heard the old case of assaulting a person in police custody after entering the police lockup. During the hearing, the court found the former BSP MLA guilty and sent him to jail on judicial custody.
On 30 May 2011, Shamim Ahmed, a resident of the Dholna Kotwali area of Kasganj, reached Dholna Police Station to file a case of molestation against a person named Shamshad. Here, the police were reluctant to register a case. Shamim Ahmed gave this information to Hasrat Ullah Sherwani, who was the BSP MLA at that time. However, later the police took a written complaint from Shamim Ahmed and brought Shamshad to the Dholna Police Station and locked him in the police station lockup. It was alleged that the Bahujan Samaj Party MLA, who is now with the Samajwadi Party, Hasrat Ullah Sherwani, had forcibly entered the police station with eight of his companions after getting to know about the police not filing a case against Shamshad. Later, they beat up Shamshad in the police lockup fiercely.
Shamshad was released from the police station only after a settlement was reached between the two sides. After being released from the police station, Shamshad complained to the Human Rights Commission about the severe beating by the MLA in the police lockup. Taking cognizance of the matter immediately, the Human Rights Commission had directed action against the MLA.
On Shamshad's report, the police had registered an FIR against nine people including the then BSP MLA Hasrat Ullah Sherwani, in which the police had also filed a charge sheet. The hearing of this entire matter was going on in the court of ADJ III Gagan Kumar Bharti of MP-MLA Court. During the hearing on Saturday, finding the former MLA guilty, the court ordered him to be sent to judicial custody and sent to jail, after which the former MLA was sent to jail. Now on August 25, the sentence of the former MLA will be decided by Judge Gagan Kumar Bharti in the ADJ Court.
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