Ex-MLA Pawan Pandey gets 7-yr jail in 1990 assault case
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Ex-MLA Pawan Pandey gets 7-yr jail in 1990 assault case

Hindustan Times  

The MP/MLA court of Uttar Pradesh’s Ambedkar Nagar on Monday awarded seven-year imprisonment to former Shiv Sena MLA from Ambedkar Nagar’s Akbarpur seat Pawan Pandey in connection with an over three-decades’ old case of assault on a contractor. The court also imposed a fine of ₹32,000 on the former MLA who is already in Ambedkar Nagar jail in connection with a land grabbing case. The incident took place on June 26, 1990 when contractor Arvind Kumar Singh and Anil Singh went to Kichhauchha Bazaar of Ambedkar Nagar to hire labourers for construction work. Pandey’s elder brother Rakesh Pandey is a Samajwadi Party MLA from Jalalpur assembly segment of Ambedkar Nagar, while his nephew Ritesh Pandey is a former BSP MP from Ambedkar Nagar.

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