The Allahabad High Court has rejected the bail of three-time MLA Irfan Solanki from Kanpur saying that a lawmaker cannot become a lawbreaker.
A Single Bench of Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh passed this order while hearing a Criminal Misc Bail Application filed by Irfan Solanki.
The bail application under Section 439 CrPC has been filed by the applicant seeking bail in FIR under Sections 436, 506, 147, 327, 427, 386, 504 and 120B IPC, Police Station Jajmau, District Kanpur.
The accused-applicant is 3rd time Member of Legislature Assembly of the State of UP.
As per the FIR, the accused-applicant and his brother, co-accused Rizwan Solanki have been torturing, harassing and intimidating the complainant to grab her property.
It is further alleged that these people had conspired, and as a result of criminal conspiracy, three members of the family of the complainant were killed including her husband and two sons. Several times, the accused applicant, his brother and his goons have given threats to the complainant to leave the premises where she has got a small residence and transfer land to his brother.
On 07.11.2022 when the complainant and his family had gone to attend a wedding, allegedly the brother of the accused-applicant and his goons came there and set the house on fire.
During the course of investigation, burnt articles have been recovered and were sent to forensic science examination. In forensic science examination, it was found that these articles were burnt by some inflammatory substance.
“The petitioner has a long criminal history of 15 cases. A lawmaker cannot become a law breaker. Considering the long checkered criminal history of the accused-applicant and the fact that he is a lawmaker, who allegedly has broken and taken the law in his hand, this Court does not consider it to be a fit case for enlarging the accused-applicant on bail at this stage”, the Court observed while rejecting the bail application.