Kanpur Adminstration seeks speedy trial in criminal cases against SP MLA, brother

Jailed Samajwadi Party MLA Irfan Solanki has been booked in a case related to issuing certificates to a Bangladeshi family which were used to obtain Indian documents, including Aadhaar, police said on Tuesday.Solanki has been in prison since November 8 when he surrendered after being booked for rioting and arson in a land dispute case.

Jailed Samajwadi Party MLA Irfan Solanki has been booked in a case related to issuing certificates to a Bangladeshi family which were used to obtain Indian documents, including Aadhaar, police said on Tuesday.

Solanki has been in prison since November 8 when he surrendered after being booked for rioting and arson in a land dispute case. The MLA is also accused of using a fake Aadhaar. While in jail, he was also booked for issuing certificates to a Bangladeshi family.

Kanpur Police Commissioner BP Jogdand has requested the district judge and Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) for fast tracking decision on two criminal cases filed against Solanki and his brother Rizwan Solanki, police said.

The Kanpur jail administration has also requested the state government to shift the duo to the jails elsewhere, an official said. On December 11, four members of the Bangladeshi family living illegally in Kanpur were arrested for allegedly carrying fake documents, while a juvenile was apprehended. The police seized 13 fake passports, five Aadhaar cards, education certificates, foreign currency, gold ornaments and more than Rs 14 lakh cash from them. Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Anand Prakash Tiwari said police investigation confirmed that the jailed MLA had issued certificates to the family which were used to obtain the Indian documents.

The MLA's signature matched with those on the certificates issued to the family, the officer added.

The SP MLA has repeatedly given the official ''guarantee'' letters to Bangladesh national Rizwan Mohammad and his family members, who all are also behind bars, to make them Indian nationals, the JCP said.

The SP MLA had also verified Bangladesh national Rizwan Mohammad's photos and other documents too that helped him in executing his nefarious designs, the official said. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, who visited the MLA in prison on Monday, said Solanki was innocent and has been falsely implicated in criminal cases.

He alleged that the police registered false cases against Solanki to keep him behind bars and also made a fake Aadhaar card to implicate him in yet another case.

Yadav even defended the MLA's decision to be on the run, claiming if he had not fled from Kanpur, the police would have done what it did with Balwant Singh, who died in police custody, and Vikas Dubey, who was killed in an encounter. Soon after the SP chief left the city on Monday, police officials told media persons that Solanki has been accused in the case related to the Bangladeshi family's arrest.

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