W Wangyuh Konyak, a Lok Sabha MP from Nagaland, is facing trial in a Haryana court for dishonouring cheques worth Rs 22.45 lakh in a business deal.

On Saturday, the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate in Hisar framed charges against Konyak under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act. Konyak, the lone MP from Nagaland, belongs to the Nagaland Peoples’ Front, a constituent of the NDA.

Petitioner Dinesh Kumar claimed he had sold fertiliser bags to Konyak two years ago and had delivered the stock Rajasthan and Delhi. In his complaint, Kumar said the MP had issued two cheques of Rs 10 lakh and two of Rs 66,000, all of which bounced. In July, Konyak even presented himself before the ACJM to obtain bail.

Incidentally, the CBI has almost finished probing a complaint by four Hisar youth that Konyak took Rs 15.5 lakh from them promising jobs in Delhi, Nagaland and Rajasthan. One of the victims, Amit Lamba, also a Janata Dal (United) leader, had claimed that the MP even issued receipts to all four of them. The CBI had confiscated these documents.

Lamba in his complaints to the CBI had alleged that the MP took Rs 10 lakh for getting him the job of a DSP in Nagaland, Rs 4 lakh for getting two women appointed as teachers in Rajasthan and Rs 1.5 lakh for getting the job of a receptionist at the Nagaland Bhavan in Delhi. When the jobs did not materialise Lamba and others sought their money back and in lieu got the cheques which later bounced.