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In Maharashtra, a Shiv Sena’s sitting MLA and former MP Pradip Shivnarayan Jaiswal convicted and sentenced to six months’ rigorous imprisonment for assaulting a police head constable in 2018 communal riots in Aurangabad city. Jaiswal, who represents the Aurangabad central assembly seat, had then gone to the police station, demanding the immediate release of two men who were arrested from the Gandhi Nagar area for rioting and other charges.
Soon after the sentencing, the court of additional sessions judge granted Jaiswal default bail to enable him to appeal in the higher courts. In convictions where the punishment is given is of less than three years, the convict gets default bail till the appeal period.
