Setting aside the verdict of the High Court in the MlA Makhanlal Jatav murder case, the Supreme Court on Thursday issued a bailable arrest warrant against Madhya Pradesh’s General Administration Department (GAD) Minister lal Singh Arya, asking him to appear before the apex court.
Earlier, after the district court had issued an arrest warrant against Arya, he had moved to Gwalior bench of the High Court, which had stayed the district court orders and stated that there were no adequate evidence against Arya in the case.
later, the petitioner Ranveer Jatav, son of deceased Makhanlal Jatav, approached the Supreme Court. After going through facts, the apex court set aside the verdict of the High Court. Now, the apex court has issued a bailable warrant of Rs 25,000 against Arya and asked him to appear in the court on September 14.
Jatav, then the MlA from Bhind, was shot dead on April 13, 2009, in Gohad while campaigning for Congress candidate Bhagirath Prasad in the lok Sabha election. An eyewitness, Banwarilal Jatav, informed the local court in Bhind that he had seen and heard Arya give instructions to kill the legislator.
On May 19, 2017, a district court in Bhind had found that Arya was involved in the murder case. On this, the court in Bhind issued an arrest warrant against Arya for his alleged involvement in the murder of an MlA, Makhan Singh Jatav, in 2009. Arya is Madhya
Pradesh’s Minister of State for SC warrant against MP Min in Jatav murder case General Administration.
Eight people had been named as accused in the murder case, but Arya was not among them. Judge Yogesh Gupta of the Bhind court ordered that the minister’s name be included among the accused and an arrest warrant issued against him.
Banwarilal Jatav, an eyewitness, had deposed before the court and said Arya exhorted someone to shoot Jatav on that day. Jatav’s wife, Shila Jatav, had also told the court that her husband was apprehensive of the minister.