SP MLA Nahid Hasan’s bail plea rejected by UP’s court. The MLA was booked under stringent Gangsters Act and was arrested on Jan 15. Nahid Hasan was again named from Kairana by the SP leader Akhilesh Yadav for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
While rejecting Nahid Hasan’s bail plea, MP/MLA special court judge Subodh Singh stated that there was no case for relief. Nahid’s advocate Manoj Rana said they would move the Allahabad high court for bail, Prayagraj.
After his arrest on Jan 15, he was grated 14 days custody. Police figures stated that he has named in around more than two dozen of the cases over the years.
A day before his arrest, Hasan had filed his nomination papers from his constituency Kairana for the upcoming assembly election. He was the lone candidate to have filed a nomination on the first day of issuance of notification.
However, the SP has now replaced Hasan with his sister Iqra Hasan as the party’s candidate from Kairana.
According to police, 40 people, including Hasan and his mother Tabassum Begum, were booked in a 2021 case registered under the Gangsters
While most of the accused were released on bail, Hasan failed to surrender in court following which a non-bailable warrant was issued against the 34-year-old SP MLA and he was arrested.
His mother, a former Lok Sabha MP, was granted bail by the Allahabad high court.