Varun Gandhi walks out of Etah jail

April 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party leader Varun Gandhi met senior BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani on Saturday for the first time since his release from the Etah District Jail on Thursday. During their meeting, Advani reportedly told Varun to respect the undertaking he had put before the Supreme Court.

April 16th, 2009 ETAH - With the Supreme Court Thursday ordering 'forthwith release' of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi for two weeks, Etah jail authorities said they were waiting to receive the order to release him. 'I think the court order will come through fax to Etah district magistrate and hence will be passed on to me.

April 16th, 2009 ETAH - Varun Gandhi, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader jailed here for his hate speeches, was Thursday set to walk free though jail officials were awaiting the Supreme Court's order in this regard. The apex court earlier in the day ordered Varun Gandhi's 'forthwith release' for two weeks to enable him to file his nomination for Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit Lok Sabha constituency and campaign for the polls.

April 7th, 2009 ETAH - A senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Tuesday said he would run a train over Railways Minister Lalu Prasad for his alleged threatening remarks against jailed politician Varun Gandhi. 'If I were a railways minister, I would have run a train over Lalu Prasad,' Ram Vilas Vedanti, a former BJP MP told reporters here after he met Varun Gandhi in Etah jail.

April 6th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh will Monday visit Uttar Pradesh's Etah jail where his party's Pilibhit candidate Varun Gandhi is behind bars for his alleged inflammatory campaign speeches. BJP workers will also demonstrate against the Mayawati-led state government for invoking the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against Varun Gandhi, who was moved from Pilibhit to Etah, 300 km away, last week.

April 6th, 2009 ETAH - Bharatiya Janata Party President Rajnath Singh met Varun Gandhi at the Etah jail on Monday. After the meeting, Singh said the BJP would politically and legally stand with Varun.

April 6th, 2009 ETAH - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh will meet Varun Gandhi at the Etah District Jail later in the day. Varun, who is a BJP candidate from the Pilibhit parliamentary constituency, got mired in a controversy for his alleged anti-Muslim speech during an election campaign in Pilibhit.

April 6th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh will Monday visit Uttar Pradesh's Etah jail where the party's Pilibhit candidate Varun Gandhi is behind bars for his alleged inflammatory campaign speeches. BJP workers will also demonstrate against the Mayawati-led state government for invoking the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against Varun Gandhi, who was moved from Pilibhit to Etah, 300 km away, last week.

April 5th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi, currently in prison for his reported hate speeches, Sunday refused to meet the investigating officer who visited Etah jail to record his statement in connection with the cases lodged against him. 'He (Varun) said that he will only talk to officials in the presence of his lawyer,' Bali Ram Rao, the investigating officer from Pilibhit, told reporters.

April 2nd, 2009 ETAH - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday alleged that Varun Gandhi had been harassed and tortured in the jail. "Varun Gandhi was kept in a small cell, where he could not see anyone.

April 2nd, 2009 LUCKNOW - A delegation of senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders will meet Varun Gandhi, the party's candidate from Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit constituency, in the Etah jail Thursday afternoon, a party official said. 'Former BJP president M.

April 1st, 2009 ETAH - There was pandemonium outside the Etah jail Wednesday with activists of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) clamouring for the release of Varun Gandhi, who reached here and sent a message saying he wanted to meet only his mother. Varun Gandhi, the BJP candidate in Pilibhit who was jailed for his communal campaign speeches, was moved to Etah, 300 km away, in the early hours of Wednesday.

April 1st, 2009 PILIBHIT - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lok Sabha candidate Varun Gandhi was early Wednesday shifted from the prison here to a jail in Uttar Pradesh's Etah town, an official said. Gnahdi was shifted to Etah at around 1.30 a.m.

April 1st, 2009 ETAH - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Maneka Gandhi Wednesday criticised Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati for slapping the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against her son and party candidate Varun Gandhi, and said she would hold her and the Congress responsible if he was harmed. 'This is a trap.

April 1st, 2009 ETAH - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi, who was lodged in the district jail in Pilibhit in connection with a case pertaining to the alleged anti-Muslim remarks, was shifted to the Etah Jail late on Tuesday night for security reasons. According to official sources, Varun was moved to avoid a law and order problem in Pilibhit.