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POCSO court in Lucknow grants bail to Gayatri Prajapati.
Updated : Apr 25, 2017, 01:37 PM IST
Rape-accused Uttar Pradesh former minister Gayatri Prajapati was on Tuesday granted bail by a POCSO court in Lucknow.
Prajapati was arrested on March 15 from Aashiyana area in Lucknow by the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF).
The SP leader was booked on a Supreme Court directive and an FIR was lodged on February 17 against the minister and six others for allegedly gang-raping a woman and attempting to rape her minor daughter in 2014.
"I am innocent. This is a conspiracy to malign me," Prajapati had said after his arrest.
Meanwhile, the apex court has directed the Uttar Pradesh police to protect the woman's family members.