Maharashtra’s Agriculture Minister Manikro Kokka, brother gets 2 years in jail for fraud to secure EIDS flats – India News – The Times of India

NASHIK: Maharashtra Agriculture Minister Manikarao Kokte and his brother, Vijay, were convicted on Thursday and sentenced to two years rigorous imprisonment in 1995 to achieve each flat, which was sentenced to 10% of the state government under 10% of the housing quota For the economically weaker sections for income documents for economically weaker sections.
For each of the five crimes related to cheating and forgery under IPC, apart from two years of RI (to run all sentences), Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Rupali Narwadia gave Rs 10,000 for each of the five crimes Fined; The amount comes every 50,000 rupees. The court also directed Mada and Nashik deputy collector (Urban Land Sealing) To take measures to cancel the allocation of flats after the appeal period ends.
On a latter argument, the court granted bail to enable the NCP executive and his brother to enable him to appeal against his sentence before a session court in the drug. Under the representation of the People Act, an MLA attracts disqualification when convicted for two years or more, until the guilty is convicted.
Kokte is the second NCP minister of Ajit Pawar’s NCP, who faced heat after Dhananjay Munde, who is attacking the murder of Masajog Sarpanch in Beed District.
Kokate, who was in court, later told reporters, “This is a 30 -year -old politically inspired case. Then MLA and former minister Tukram Digomle raised the case, and a police complaint against me a government official Recorded the decision by now, but we will definitely file an appeal. “
The court said, “At the time of the alleged incident, the accused number 1 was in a post in a political party … Apart from this, he is a lawyer and now he is a minister in the agriculture department … so the accused has such an approach. The number 1 is extremely terrible (SIC) to get flats at a low rate by hiding information about.