A Delhi court has released former Congress MLA after due admonition instead of sentencing him to any punishment in a case where he accidentally fired from his liscenced pistol while loading the cartridges in it at a licencing office in 2017.
“Since there is no previous conviction proved against the accused and the offence proved against the accused is punishable with imprisonment of less than two years and considering the age, character, physical condition of the convict as well as the trivial nature of the offence, the accused be released after due admonition instead of sentencing him to any punishment,” Metropolitan Magistrate Rishabh Tanwar said in the order. After the court order, former Congress MLA blamed the AAP and the BJP for implicating him in a false case. “Now, the court has acquitted me,” he said. During the argument, Jai Kishan’s advocate had argued that the accused is a person of good standing as he was a former MLA of the Congress Party having a clean political background.
His Counsel argued that a lenient view be taken against the accused as he is of 65 years of age having old age related ailments and that the accused is also a heart patient. Kishan had also submitted his medical documents in support of the contentions.
In May 2017, the incident happened in the Defence Colony police station limits when the ex-MLA had gone to the licencing office for the renewal of his arms licence.