Supreme Court directs Allahabad High Court to decide on Irfan Solanki's plea within 10 days
Oct 21, 2024
New Delhi [India], October 21 : The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Allahabad High Court to decide in 10 days on Irfan Solanki's plea seeking a stay on his conviction in connection with an arson case.
A bench of justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan asked the Allahabad High Court to decide expeditiously on the Solanki plea.
The local court in Uttar Pradesh had convicted Solanki and others in a case relating to setting a house of a woman on fire in Kanpur. The court has sentenced them to jail for seven years.
Solanki moved the Allahabad High Court and sought to stay his conviction and quantum of sentence in the case. The Allahabad High Court adjourned the matter for November 6.
Solanki, who won the 2022 assembly elections from Sisamau in Kanpur district as the Samajwadi Party leader was disqualified post-conviction.
Earlier in June, the MP MLA court in Kanpur sentenced Samajwadi Party MLA Irfan Solanki and his younger brother Rizwan Solanki, along with three others, to 7 years in prison and fined them Rs 20,000 each in an arson case.
On November 8, 2022, Nazir Fatima lodged an FIR in Jajmau police station against Irfan Solanki, Rizwan Solanki, and three other people under sections 436, 506, 504, 147, 427, 386 and 120B of the IPC, and alleged that Irfan Solanki and his brother Rizwan Solanki and others, as part of a conspiracy, set her house on fire so that they could take over her land."All the sentences will run simultaneously.
