<p>Bareilly: Former MP Dhananjay Singh was on Wednesday released from Bareilly jail after he was granted bail by the Allahabad High Court last week.</p>.<p> The MP-MLA court in Jaunpur on March 6, sentenced Singh and his associate Santosh Vikram to seven years of rigorous imprisonment in a 2020 kidnapping and extortion case.</p>.<p> The former MP was lodged in Jaunpur district jail and was later shifted to Bareilly jail.</p>.<p>Allahabad High Court granted bail to Singh on Saturday but refused his plea to suspend or stay a seven-year jail sentence passed by the district court.</p>.<p> Singh and his associate Santosh Vikram were found guilty by the district court for their involvement in the kidnapping and extortion of Namami Gange project manager Abhinav Singhal.</p>.<p> Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Singh said that a fake case was lodged against him in 2020 for exposing corruption in the Namami Gange project in Jaunpur district.</p>.Why no bail plea in trial court, SC asks Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal.<p> Singh has been released on bail but he cannot contest elections due to the conviction in the district court.</p>.<p> Singh's wife Srikala Reddy is contesting from Jaunpur parliamentary constituency as a candidate of the Bahujan Samaj Party.</p>.<p> In Jaunpur, the BJP has fielded former Maharashtra minister Kripa Shankar Singh, while the SP has fielded Babu Singh Kushwaha, a former BSP minister accused in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam.</p>.<p> Dhananjay Singh, who was the BSP MP from Jaunpur between 2009-2014, said that after being released from the jail he will visit Jaunpur. He extended best wishes to his wife for the Lok Sabha elections.</p>.<p> Elections in Jaunpur will be held on May 25 in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha polls.</p>
<p>Bareilly: Former MP Dhananjay Singh was on Wednesday released from Bareilly jail after he was granted bail by the Allahabad High Court last week.</p>.<p> The MP-MLA court in Jaunpur on March 6, sentenced Singh and his associate Santosh Vikram to seven years of rigorous imprisonment in a 2020 kidnapping and extortion case.</p>.<p> The former MP was lodged in Jaunpur district jail and was later shifted to Bareilly jail.</p>.<p>Allahabad High Court granted bail to Singh on Saturday but refused his plea to suspend or stay a seven-year jail sentence passed by the district court.</p>.<p> Singh and his associate Santosh Vikram were found guilty by the district court for their involvement in the kidnapping and extortion of Namami Gange project manager Abhinav Singhal.</p>.<p> Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Singh said that a fake case was lodged against him in 2020 for exposing corruption in the Namami Gange project in Jaunpur district.</p>.Why no bail plea in trial court, SC asks Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal.<p> Singh has been released on bail but he cannot contest elections due to the conviction in the district court.</p>.<p> Singh's wife Srikala Reddy is contesting from Jaunpur parliamentary constituency as a candidate of the Bahujan Samaj Party.</p>.<p> In Jaunpur, the BJP has fielded former Maharashtra minister Kripa Shankar Singh, while the SP has fielded Babu Singh Kushwaha, a former BSP minister accused in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam.</p>.<p> Dhananjay Singh, who was the BSP MP from Jaunpur between 2009-2014, said that after being released from the jail he will visit Jaunpur. He extended best wishes to his wife for the Lok Sabha elections.</p>.<p> Elections in Jaunpur will be held on May 25 in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha polls.</p>