SC agrees to hear plea for cancellation of Nitish Kumar's House membership for concealing murder case
A bench of Justices Dipak Misra, Amitava Roy and AM Khanwilkar agreed to hear the case after it was filed on Monday.
The case has been filed by advocate ML Sharma.
Questioning the Chief Minister's act of concealing the case from the Election Commission and then continuing in office without seeking bail despite facing such a serious criminal charge, the petitioner has sought immediate cancellation of Nitish Kumar's House membership.
The Chief Minister has been accused of killing a local Congress leader and injuring four others during the 1991 Lok Sabha elections for Barh seat.
The lawyer has sought cancellation of Kumar's membership as per the Election Commission's 2002 order making it mandatory for candidates to disclose criminal cases against them in their affidavits annexed to nomination papers.
thebiharpost.com
Support Our Journalism
We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism
IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.
