India News: Ram Shankar Katheria, a Lok Sabha MP from Etawah, has been acquitted of all charges in a 2011 assault and rioting case. Katheria had earlier been sent
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Holding Katheria guilty, the MP/MLA court in Agra had handed him a two-year jail term in August this year following which the MP was under threat of being disqualified as the Lok Sabha member
The court was to deliver its order on Thursday after arguments by prosecution were completed on September 30. The defence counsel had already completed his arguments. However, the court deemed it fit to re-hear the arguments on certain legal issues related to disposal of appeal filed by BJP MP from Etawah Ram Shankar Katheria, facing threat of disqualification after a lower court awarded him two years’ imprisonment.
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