Abhishek Manu Singhvi to represent Lallu’s bail plea

LUCKNOW:

Senior Congress leader

and lawyer,

Abhishek Manu Singhvi

would be representing the bail application of UP Congress president

Ajay Kumar Lallu

who is in jail since May 20 in connection with the bus row. The case is to be taken up at the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on June 12.

“Singhvi will make a virtual appearance before the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on June 12 to plead Lallu’s case along with lawyer Satyendra Singh,” said senior Congress leader and former Rajya Sabha MP Pramod Tewari.

Lallu was arrested for the alleged forgery of documents of buses arranged by his party for ferrying stranded migrant workers during the Coronavirus lockdown.

Party national general secretary Priyanka Gandhi had earlier offered to run 1,000 buses to ferry migrants returning home in Uttar Pradesh. The offer had led to a major controversy with Lallu landing in jail.

A special court hearing Lallu’s

bail plea

on May 29 had postponed the hearing. Taking up the matter again on June 1, the special court rejected his plea.

Congress workers and biggies including Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi registered their protest to press for Lallu’s release but to no

avail

.

Last week, the UP Congress launched a campaign called ‘Sewa Satyagrah’ in which the party workers took up charitable activities.