Lucknow: Former UP minister and Rashtriya Shoshit Samaj Party president Swami Prasad Maurya and his former MP daughter Sanghmitra Maurya have been declared absconding by the court. The MP MLA court has declared the father and daughter as fugitives. The court has issued the order after the two did not appear in the court continuously in the case filed for allegedly marrying a second time without divorcing and for assault, abuse, threat to life and property and conspiracy. The court has also ordered both of them to appear on August 27.
This order has been given by Special ACJM Alok Verma of MP-MLA Court. Earlier, the court had issued a non-bailable warrant against both of them in April 2024 itself. At the same time, Swami Prasad and Sanghamitra Maurya have also filed a petition in the Lucknow Bench of the High Court against this matter, although the High Court also refused to give them relief.
In fact, plaintiff Deepak Kumar Swarnkar, a resident of Sushant Golf City, has filed this case in the court against Sanghamitra and Swami Prasad Maurya and others. The plaintiff alleges that he and Sanghamitra were living in a live-in relationship since 2016. Sanghamitra and her father Swami Prasad Maurya told the plaintiff that Sanghamitra was divorced from her previous marriage. After which the plaintiff married Sanghamitra at her house on 3 January 2019, however, when he later came to know, a murderous attack was carried out on him so that the matter of the marriage does not come to light. Taking cognizance of the petition, the court had summoned both of them for trial but they have not appeared till now.
