State government says he wields “considerable influence in the environs of powers.”
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed former Uttar Pradesh minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati’s interim bail, granted for two months on medical grounds, by the Allahabad High Court, in a gang rape case.
The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court on September 3 had granted interim bail to Prajapati who was a minister in the erstwhile Samajwadi Party government.
Despite the High Court bail, Prajapati remained in judicial custody as a fresh case of fraud, forgery and criminal intimidation was registered against him.
A Bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy and M R Shah took note of the plea of the Uttar Pradesh government and stayed the High Court’s bail order and sought response of the accused leader on the petition.
The State government, in its appeal, said that the “High…