New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday granted relief to Atul Rai, MP from Ghosi Lok Sabha seat of Uttar Pradesh and jailed on charges of rape, and allowed him to be taken to Delhi on custody parole for oath. A division bench of Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice Hemant Gupta refused to interfere with the Allahabad High Court's ruling granting Rai two-day custodial parole to be sworn in as a lawmaker.
With this, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MP Atul Rai will be able to take oath in Parliament on Friday. The rape victim had challenged the Allahabad High Court order in the Supreme Court and demanded a stay on the parole granted to her. The Supreme Court rejected the petition and said that it would not interfere in it. It is noteworthy that on 17 May 2019, a vacation bench of the Supreme Court refused to grant protection from arrest to Atul Rai and later surrendered.
A student complaint was filed against Atul Rai on May 1, 2019. An FIR was registered in Varanasi regarding this, but Atul Rai was not caught by the police. The police was constantly searching for them. For this reason, he did not go in the campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections and kept campaigning through video. He became an MP by winning the Lok Sabha elections in the results of May 23 last year. Since then, he is in jail and is yet to take the oath of parliamentary position.
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