In a relief to Uttar Pradesh minister Kailash Chaurasia, district court here today stayed the execution of a lower court's order sentencing him to three years in jail in a 20-year-old case, till pending appeal.
The minister had filed an appeal in the district court against the Chief Judicial Magistrate order, stating that due to the lower court's order he could lose his membership, Minister's lawyer Bihari Singh said.
District Judge Yogendra Nath Shukla stayed execution of lower court's order in the case in which he is accused of misbehaving with a government employee in 1995.
The Child Development and Nutrition Minister was awarded three years imprisonment on February 28, but was released by the court on bail and personal bond.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Rajesh Bharadwaj had sentenced the minister in connection with a case registered against him by a postman, Krishna Dev Tripathi.
Tripathi had alleged in FIR filed under various sections of the IPC that when he had gone to deliver a registered letter at Chaurasiya's home on October 19, 1995, he misbehaved with him and snatched a bundle of official documents.
