A magistrate’s court here sentenced two sitting Congress MLAs and seven others to one-year imprisonment on Wednesday (June 18, 2025) in an 11-year-old case of unlawful assembly and blocking of a public road outside the University of Rajasthan during a protest. The convicts also included an unsuccessful Congress candidate in the 2023 Rajasthan Assembly election.
Congress MLAs Mukesh Bhakar, elected from Ladnun, and Manish Yadav, representing Shahpura, were among the student leaders who staged a protest and blocked Jawaharlal Nehru Marg outside the university’s gate for about 20 minutes on August 13, 2014. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Parikshita Detha found them guilty after a protracted trial lasting 11 years.
