Gauhati High Court
Gauhati High Court quashes MCC violation case against Assam CM
Guwahati: The Gauhati high court gave clean chit to Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma and dismissed a complaint lodged by the Election Commision against the Assam Chief Minister for allegedly violating the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) during the Lok Sabha election of 2019.
The complaint was lodged by the Election Commission based on allegation by the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC).
In its order, the Justice Rumi Kumari Phookan said, "This court is of the considered opinion that continuation of criminal proceeding would amount to abuse of process of court causing injustice and quashing of the proceeding would otherwise serve the ends of justice. Resultantly, the impugned orders as well as entire proceeding pertaining to CR Case No.1843C/2019 under Section 126(1)(b) of the Representation of People’s Act pending before the court of learned CJM, Kamrup (M) at Guwahati is hereby quashed and set aside.”
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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