Ramakant Yadav, a four-time MP and Samajwadi Party MLA, was sentenced to four months in prison and fined Rs 7,000 in connection with an assault case in 2019.
Ramakant Yadav is well-known in Uttar Pradesh, where he served in the past with the Bahujan Samaj Party, the BJP, and the Congress. He was elected as an MP from the Azamgarh Lok Sabha seat four times.
According to district government council Satish Kumar Pandey, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (III) Shweta Chandra sentenced Yadav, an MLA from the Phulpur Pawai assembly seat in the Azamgarh district, to four months in prison for an assault that took place three and a half years ago close to the Hotel River-View in Chak Pyar Ali of the city.
The prosecution asserts that on December 5, 2019, a member of Yadav's convoy struck the complainant, Mitrasen Singh, who was riding a bike, with a stick. Ramakant Yadav and his 10 to 12 supporters allegedly stepped out of their car, started taunting Singh while hitting him.
They allegedly threatened to kill him while aiming a weapon at his chest.
In October 2019, Yadav formally joined the Samajwadi Party just days after being kicked out of the Congress for 'anti-party' conduct.
