AAP Rajya Sabha Member Granted Protection
In a relief to Aam Aadmi Party's Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh, the Supreme Court on Tuesday granted him protection against arrest in all FIRs registered against him in Uttar Pradesh.
The Supreme Court issued the notice on his plea for clubbing of all FIRs. Singh has cited eight FIRs filed in Lucknow, Sant Kabir Nagar, Khiri, Bagpat, Muzaffarnagar, Basti and Aligarh etc.
His lawyer Vivek Tankha contended before a bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan that since Singh was a Rajya Sabha member, the permission for his prosecution should have been given by the Chair of the Upper House. Tankha said that identical FIRs have been filed against the AAP leader at dozen places.
The top court noted that the UP government could approach the Rajya Sabha Chairman for prosecution sanction.
After a brief hearing, the bench directed that Singh should not be arrested in the criminal cases registered against him and adjourned the matter for further hearing in the third week of March.