Former Rajya Sabha MP Banwari Lal Kanchal Handed Two Years Prison Term For Assaulting Sales Tax Officer

Lucknow, February 24 (TNA) The court of ACJM Ambrish Kumar Srivastava has awarded a sentence of two years and also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on former MP Banwari Lal Kanchal. On being convicted, an appeal was made on behalf of former MP to release him by giving him the benefit of probation. The court refused to release Kanchal on probation.

Kanchal was sentenced to two years in prison for beating up a sales tax officer and threatening his life.

The court said that the convict is a former Rajya Sabha MP as well as a business leader. Giving the benefit of probation to such an eminent person will create a wrong impression about the judiciary in the public community.

After this, an appeal was made on behalf of the convict Banwari Lal Kanchal to release him on bail by giving an application in the court. Accepting his application, the court ordered two sureties of Rs 20,000 each and a surety to be filed in the court within ten days.

Assistant Prosecution Officer Sonu Singh Rathore said that the report of this case was lodged by the then Sales Tax Officer Arun Kumar Tripathi at Hazratganj police station on October 6, 1991. It was told that in the afternoon, when the accused Banwari Lal Kanchal was doing official work in the office located on Meerabai Marg premises, then the accused reached with his companions and assaulted them.

He also threatened the officers to stop catching goods-laden vehicles in Lucknowin checking on roads. It was told that even before this, the accused had reached the office of the mobile team and abused the sales tax officer DC Chaturvedi and threatened the officers and employees by breaking the chairs kept in the office and causing disruption in the official work. Five witnesses including the plaintiff were produced by the prosecution in this case.