UP Court Awards Life Sentence To Ex-Minister Gayatri Prajapati For Rape

In its judgment, a special court on November 11, awarded life sentence to a former minister in the Uttar Pradesh government Gayatri Prajapati, and two others in connection with gang-raping a woman and her minor daughter. The court also ordered each of them to pay a fine of Rs 2 lakh. Notably, Prajapati was arrested in 2017. He was the transport and mining minister in the Akhilesh Yadav government.