A farmer in this Uttar Pradesh district was today convicted till the rising of the court for illegally diverting water to his fields from Ganga canal.
Additional chief judicial magistrate Golal Tiwari also imposed a fine of Rs 2000 on Islam after holding him guilty under IPC Section 430 (Mischief by injury to works of irrigation or by wrongfully diverting water).
In 2011, Inspector of Irrigation Department Kailash Chand had lodged the FIR against the farmer and alleged that he was illegally diverting water from the canal for irrigation of his fields at Kakrala village under Bhopa police station in the district.
