BHOPAL: District and Sessions court, on Saturday, has acquitted former minister Lal Singh Arya on Saturday in connection with the 2009 murder of sitting Congress MLA from Gohad seat Makhanlal Jatav.
Advocate Ravi Goel, who produced documents of High Court order regarding quashing FIR, said, “I submitted the High Court order of January 31,2020, in which HC had quashed the FIR against Lal Singh Arya under Section 482 of CrPC, in court of ADJ Suresh Singh in District court. On the basis of HC order, special court of ADJ Suresh Singh, formally acquitted Arya if murder charge.”
The then sitting Congress MLA from Gohad seat of Bhind district, Makhanlal Jatav was shot dead while campaigning for the party candidate during the Lok Sabha polls on April 13, 2009 in Bhind district.
Based on complaint by the slain MLA’s security guard a case of murder was lodged against Narayan Sharma, Sher Singh, Mevaram, Sethi Kaurav, Gandharva Singh, Kedar Singh, Tejnarayan Sharma (who is dead now) and Ramrup Singh Gurjar.
During the course of trial the deceased Congress legislator’s son Ranveer Jatav and another key witness in the case stated before the court that it was on behest of Arya that the then Congress MLA Makhanlal Jatav was shot dead on April 13, 2009.
Based on statements of the key witnesses, the special court in Bhind directed on August 24,2009 that Arya be named among the accused.
