Samajwadi Party MLA and former MP Ramakant Yadav was sentenced to four months in jail by a court in Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur on Tuesday in a 2019 assault case. The court imposed a fine of ₹7,000 on Yadav, a four-time MP. Yadav was sentenced in an incident of assault that occurred three and a half years ago in Jaunpur.