Gayatri Prajapati, ex-UP minister, gets life term for raping woman, her minor daughter

Prajapati held transport and mining portfolios in the Akhilesh Yadav cabinet and was arrested in March 2017. 

Lucknow: Former Uttar Pradesh minister Gayatri Prajapati and two others were sentenced to life imprisonment by a special court here on Friday for gang-raping a woman and her minor daughter.

The special court for lawmakers headed by Additional Sessions Judge PK Rai also imposed a fine of Rs 2 lakh on each convict.

Prajapati and two other convicts Ashok Tiwari and Ashish Shukla were present in the court when it pronounced the quantum of sentence against them.