{"id":306957,"date":"2018-12-13T10:42:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T10:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306957"},"modified":"2018-12-13T10:42:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T10:42:33","slug":"sc-issues-notice-to-maharashtra-cm-on-plea-against-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sc-issues-notice-to-maharashtra-cm-on-plea-against-election\/","title":{"rendered":"SC issues notice to Maharashtra CM on plea against election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305773 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fadnavis-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/fadnavis-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/fadnavis-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/fadnavis-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/fadnavis-696x391.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/fadnavis-1068x600.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/fadnavis-748x420.jpg 748w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/fadnavis.jpg 1368w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court on December 13\u00a0has\u00a0issued a notice to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on a plea seeking his disqualification as a legislator for his alleged non-disclosure of two criminal cases pending against him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In his plea, social activist and lawyer Satish Ukey alleged that BJP leader Fadnavis had two cases of cheating and defamation pending against him which he did not disclose in his 2014 election affidavit, thereby violating the provisions of the Representation of the People\u2019s Act 1951.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The plea seeks annulment of his election to the Maharashtra Assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An SC bench comprising Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S K Kaul and K M Joseph sought response of the CM on an appeal filed against a Bombay High Court order.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Bombay High Court had earlier dismissed the plea seeking annulment of CM Fadanavis&#8217;s election to the Maharashtra Assembly on the ground of alleged &#8220;non-disclosure of all pending criminal cases against him&#8221; in the affidavit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on December 13\u00a0has\u00a0issued a notice to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on a plea seeking his disqualification as a legislator for his alleged non-disclosure of two criminal cases pending against him. In his plea, social activist and lawyer Satish Ukey alleged that BJP leader Fadnavis had two cases of cheating and defamation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[9827,10135,189,10134,10267,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306958,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306957\/revisions\/306958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}