by anil jadhavamravati state minister yashomati thakur and three of her aides have been sentenced to three months rigorous imprisonment for beating a traffic cop on duty eight years ago the district and sessions court here also imposed a fine of rs15500 and another one months jail in default of the finethe court granted bail to all four and permitted them to approach the higher court thakur who is the women and child development minister and guardian minister told toi that she would challenge the verdict in the high court sessions court judge urmila joshi falke held thakur her driver and two others guilty of beating a cop who had stopped her vehicle which had entered a oneway road the incident took place around 415pm on march 24 2012 in chunabhatti area under rajapeth police station in the cityaccording to the charge sheet the vehicle carrying thakur who is a threetime congress mla from teosa her aides sagar khandekar driver sharad jawanjal and raju ingle was stopped by traffic cop ulhas raurale from entering chunabhatti to gandhi chowk oneway route thakur and her aides alighted from the car and started arguing with raurale they allegedly held him by the collar and beat him upraurale lodged a complaint with rajapeth police against all four a case was registered under sections 353 332 186 34 and a charge sheet filed after investigationthe judge examined five witnesses in this case one of them a cop turned hostile during the trialaccepting deposition of the witnesses and arguments by the prosecution the judge found the four guilty the court also directed amravati police commissioner to take action against the cop who turned hostile app milind joshi pleaded the case for the prosecutionthakur said being a lawyer myself i have always respected the judiciary as such it will not be proper for me to comment on the judgement i can only say at this moment that truth shall prevail on the possible demand for her resignation by the opposition bjp thakur said they have no other work my fight with the bjp is a battle of thoughts it is out to end my political life but i shall continue my fight against the party