A Court in Amravati district has found Minister of State for School Education, Omprakash alias Bacchu Kadu, guilty of suppressing information about immovable assets in the 2014 Assembly election affidavit, and pronounced a sentence of two-month rigorous imprisonment along with a penalty of ₹25,000 against him.

After the verdict, the JMFC court in Chandur Bazar granted Kadu bail. The minister welcomed the ‘wrong verdict’ and vowed to appeal in the higher courts. The case was probed and filed in the court based on a complaint lodged in 2017.