Court awards 6-month jail term to Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel for house trespass

Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel was on Friday awarded six-month jail term by a court here for trespassing on the house of a realtor in an East Delhi colony in 2015.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal held Goel and four others -- Sumit Goyal, Hitesh Khanna, Atul Gupta and Balbir Singh -- guilty, saying the case against them was proved beyond reasonable doubts.

"I am of the view that the punishment needs to be deterrent in this case," the court said, while handing over simple imprisonment for a period of six month and a fine of Rs 1,000 each.

The court, however, granted them bail on a personal bond of Rs 1,00,000 to enable them to file an appeal before higher courts against the order of their conviction and the jail term.

The court had convicted the accused persons for the offence punishable under section 448 (house trespass) of the IPC.

Seventy-two-year-old Goel, through advocate Mhd Irshad, had denied the allegations in the case.

According to an FIR registered