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The court acquitted two other accused in the case. Coking can probably attract disqualification as an MLA if they do not get any relief from the High Court.
Maharashtra’s Agriculture Minister and NCP leader Manikrao would kok. (Through image x/@kokate_manikrao)
Maharashtra Agriculture Minister and NCP leader Manikrao Kokte was sentenced to two years imprisonment by a court here in a 1995 case where he was accused of submitting fake documents to get a flat under a government quota. Was installed.
The minister later told reporters that the court had granted him bail, and he would transfer the High Court against the verdict.
Nashik district and the session court also convicted their brother Sunil Kokte in the same case, which was registered in 1995 on the complaint of former minister, late TS Digole. The court imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on both brothers each.
The court acquitted two other accused in the case, probably can attract disqualification as an MLA if they do not get any relief from the High Court.
Talking to reporters, the minister said that the case was filed by filed, with which he had political enmity.
“I have decided to file an appeal against the verdict. We will do everything according to the law…. We will go to the High Court. I have been granted bail by the session court, “he said.
According to the prosecution, Kokate and his brother were allocated two flats for a low income group (LIG) on the college road in the Mala area under 10 percent discretionary quota of the Chief Minister. To be eligible, he made false claims of being related to the LIG category and did not make the owner of a house in the city, it was alleged.
After contacting the police, DIGHole, a case of cheating, forgery and other crimes under the Indian Penal Code was registered for the government here against the Koks and two others.
The rival NCP (SP) demanded that Kokte should resign after the verdict.
He will be the second minister of the NCP led by Ajit Pawar in the BJP -led state government to get himself in trouble. NCP leader and cabinet minister Dhananjay Munde is facing heat, when in December 2024, a village in Beed district was arrested in the case of forced recovery related to the brutal murder of a sarpanch.
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and a syndicated news agency has been published from feed – PTI,
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Nashik, India, India
