Kanpur, July 24: The designated Pota court here today fixed August 7 for framing charges against jailed Independent MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya and two others detained under Pota. The district and sessions judge Shailendra Saxena, who is also a Pota judge, also directed the prosecution to produce the original chargesheet and first information report against the three accused, including Raja Bhaiya, his father Udai Pratap Singh and MLC Akshay Pratap Singh.

The documents that were with Pratapgarh Judicial Magistrate should be brought to the courts as the same were not in the court records.

The court also directed the prosecution to produce the notification constituting the designated Pota courts which was not in the file.

In the absence of certain documents the charges could not be framed, he observed.
Hearing the case inside the district jail premises, the judge permitted Raja Bhaiya to meet his wife inside the district jail in response to his application.

The court, however, rejected his application seeking the dates of evidences recorded from some witnesses with the prosecution arguing that there was no such provision to disclose the dates of evidences of the witnesses.

Senior counsel Mridul Rakesh and Dhyan Chand argued for the prosecution while Virendra Bhatia from Lucknow appeared for the detenus with half a dozen other advocates.
While Raja Bhaiya is remanded in district jail here, his father and Akshay Pratap Singh were brought from Pratapgarh and Mirzapur district jails.

Bureau Report