{"id":312093,"date":"2019-05-09T09:26:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T09:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312093"},"modified":"2019-05-09T09:26:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T09:26:33","slug":"sc-dismisses-sacked-bsf-jawan-tej-bahadur-yadavs-petition-against-rejection-of-his-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sc-dismisses-sacked-bsf-jawan-tej-bahadur-yadavs-petition-against-rejection-of-his-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"SC dismisses sacked BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav\u2019s petition against rejection of his nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-311750 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/tej-bahadur-yadav-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/tej-bahadur-yadav-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/tej-bahadur-yadav-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/tej-bahadur-yadav-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/tej-bahadur-yadav.jpg 462w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the petition of sacked Border Security Force (BSF) constable and Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate Tej Bahadur Yadav against the Election Commission\u2019s decision to bar his nomination from Varanasi constituency for the Lok Sabha Polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi said, \u201cWe don\u2019t find any merit to entertain this petition.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Tej Bahadur Yadav had moved the top Court, terming the decision of the poll panel discriminatory and unreasonable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Yadav\u2019s nomination papers were rejected because of the discrepancies in two sets of nomination papers he filed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the rules, an employee dismissed from services with in last 5 years needs to submit a clearance from the EC that states he has not been sacked for \u201ccorruption or disloyalty to the state\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Yadav was dismissed from his service after he complained in a video about the poor quality of food served to the armed forces.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the petition of sacked Border Security Force (BSF) constable and Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate Tej Bahadur Yadav against the Election Commission\u2019s decision to bar his nomination from Varanasi constituency for the Lok Sabha Polls. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi said, \u201cWe don\u2019t find any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801],"tags":[9989,134,11305],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312093"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312094,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312093\/revisions\/312094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}