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The court fixed September 11 as the date for the next hearing in the case. The verdict by the MP/MLA court in the district had fuelled speculation that Katheria, a former Union minister, may lose his MP status following his conviction.
Etawah is part of the 508 railway stations across the country whose redevelopment’s foundation stone was laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually as part of the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme.
A special MP/MLA court in Agra has sentenced Ram Shankar Katheria to two years’ imprisonment in a 2011 assault and rioting case; the Etawah MP had also been NCSC head and Hindi professor
Katheria has earlier served as MP from Agra twice. The BJP fielded him in Etawah ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and he won for the third successive time since 2009.