<p>The MP/MLA court in Gorakhpur has acquitted <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tag/bjp" target="_blank">BJP</a> MP Dr Radha Mohan Das Agarwal in a case of damage to public property, eight years after the incident took place.</p>.<p>Agarwal, a four-time former MLA from Gorakhpur, is currently a <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tag/rajya-sabha" target="_blank">Rajya Sabha</a> MP.</p>.<p>An FIR was lodged against Agarwal by a security guard of DDU Gorakhpur University, alleging that on May 27, 2015, the then MLA had tried to enter the university campus for morning walk.</p>.<p>When the guard denied him entry, Agarwal allegedly broke the lock and asked his aides to thrash the guard, the FIR stated.</p>.<p>Agarwal had been booked under Sections 147 (rioting), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 352 (assault or criminal), 447 (criminal trespass) of IPC and also under the Damage to Public Property Act.</p>.<p>Agarwal's lawyer Madhusudan Tripathi told reporters: "The MP/MLA court judge Namrata Agarwal concluded that the MP was not guilty and freed him from the case."</p>.<p>The MP said that he had full faith in judiciary as he had also been previously acquitted in two cases registered against him by his political rivals.</p>
<p>The MP/MLA court in Gorakhpur has acquitted <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tag/bjp" target="_blank">BJP</a> MP Dr Radha Mohan Das Agarwal in a case of damage to public property, eight years after the incident took place.</p>.<p>Agarwal, a four-time former MLA from Gorakhpur, is currently a <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tag/rajya-sabha" target="_blank">Rajya Sabha</a> MP.</p>.<p>An FIR was lodged against Agarwal by a security guard of DDU Gorakhpur University, alleging that on May 27, 2015, the then MLA had tried to enter the university campus for morning walk.</p>.<p>When the guard denied him entry, Agarwal allegedly broke the lock and asked his aides to thrash the guard, the FIR stated.</p>.<p>Agarwal had been booked under Sections 147 (rioting), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 352 (assault or criminal), 447 (criminal trespass) of IPC and also under the Damage to Public Property Act.</p>.<p>Agarwal's lawyer Madhusudan Tripathi told reporters: "The MP/MLA court judge Namrata Agarwal concluded that the MP was not guilty and freed him from the case."</p>.<p>The MP said that he had full faith in judiciary as he had also been previously acquitted in two cases registered against him by his political rivals.</p>