UP Court issues bail notice against AAP Rajya Sabha MP, Sanjay Singh and five others.

An MP-MLA court in Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur has issued a bail application against Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh and five others. Special Judge Shubham Verma issued the order yesterday after Sanjay Singh and others failed to surrender following their conviction in a two-decade-old road blockade protest case.

Earlier, on August 6, the court had upheld the 45-day jail term for Sanjay Singh and others, including the Samajwadi Party’s

national spokesperson and former MLA Anoop Sanda. The court had also ordered them to surrender on August 9. However, Singh did not appear before the court citing the proceedings of Parliament.

In 2001, Sanjay Singh and Anoop Sanda, then leaders of the Democratic Socialist Party, along with their supporters, blocked a transition as a protest against power cuts. The Sultanpur Special Court convicted all six accused on January 23 last year.