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Manikrao Kokate. File picture: X/@kokate_manikrao
A courtroom in Nashik on Wednesday (March 5, 2025) stayed the conviction of Maharashtra Agriculture Minister Manikrao Kokate in a dishonest and forgery case of 1995.
A Justice of the Peace Courtroom on February 20 convicted the NCP chief and his brother Sunil Kokate and sentenced them to two-year imprisonment within the case pertaining to submitting faux paperwork to get flats below a authorities quota.
The brothers later filed an enchantment, in search of a keep on the Justice of the Peace’s order, earlier than District Decide 1 and Extra Periods Decide (Nashik) N.V. Jiwane.
The Periods Courtroom on Wednesday (March 5) allowed their enchantment.
The detailed order was not accessible but.
Whereas the Justice of the Peace Courtroom final month convicted Manikrao Kokate and his brother, it acquitted two others accused in the identical case, registered in 1995 on a grievance of former Minister, late T.S. Dighole.
As per the prosecution, Manikrao Kokate and his brother had been allotted two flats meant for the Low Revenue Group (LIG) on Faculty Street in Yeolakar Mala space of Nashik below the Chief Minister’s 10% discretionary quota.
To be eligible, they made false claims of belonging to the LIG class and never proudly owning a home within the metropolis, it was alleged.
After Dighole approached the police, a case of dishonest, forgery and different offences below the Indian Penal Code was registered towards the Kokate brothers and two others at Sarkarwada police station in Nashik.
Printed – March 05, 2025 03:04 pm IST
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