A sessions court in Gujarat’s Mehsana town suspended the seven year sentence awarded to former state minister and Dudhsagar Dairy’s former chairman Vipul Chaudhary in a case of cheating and causing a loss of Rs 22.5 crore to the dairy in 2014, and granted him bail.
A magistrate’s court here had last week convicted Chaudhary and 14 others of charges under section 420 (cheating) under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and sentenced them to jail for seven years.
While hearing an appeal filed by Chaudhary and others, Mehsana’s additional district and sessions judge C M Pawar on Friday suspended the lower court’s sentence and granted bail to the former minister and 14 others, who are behind bars after the lower court’s order on July 13.