Arms Act case: UP minister Rakesh Sachan gets a year in jail

Arms Act case: Rakesh Sachan, MSME Minister in the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh cabinet, has been sentenced to one year in prison in the 1991 Arms Act case.

The sentencing was announced on Monday by a Kanpur court.

Sachan heads the medium, small and micro enterprises and khadi departments in the Uttar Pradesh government.

A court here on August 6 held Sachan guilty in a three-decade-old Arms Acts case, after which the leader “disappeared” from the courtroom “without furnishing bail bonds”.

The additional chief metropolitan magistrate court's reader, Kamini, had filed a complaint with police alleging Sachan had taken away the file while fleeing.

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The minister while being taken to the court said he was appearing before the court despite not being given any notice, adding the came against him is bogus. “I am doing so because media painted me like an absconder, someone who took away the file. Whatever the court will decide I will abide by it.”

He later said, “We respect the court's verdict but we will go in appeal in sessions court against this decision.”

On Sunday, police said a "preliminary enquiry" had been launched into Sachan's "disappearance" from the courtroom "without furnishing bail bonds" after being convicted in the case.

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