By The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected ex-BSF man Tej Bahadur’s petition difficult the election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi Lok Sabha body in 2019.
A Bench headed by CJI Storm Troops Bobde, that had reserved its order on Tej Bahadur’s petition on November eighteen, aforementioned his election petition was justifiedly fired by the Allahabad state supreme court.
Bahadur, WHO was fired from BSF in 2017 when he denote a video on-line alleging that poor quality food was served to the troops, contended his nomination papers were wrong rejected.
The top court had on November eighteen rejected the petitioner’s counsel’s recurrent requests to adjourn the hearing, expression the matter had already been adjourned thrice at his instance.
“This is just too vital a pertain be adjourned numerous times. The respondent occupies a novel workplace. he’s the PM of India,” the highest court had noted.
“Why ought to we tend to grant you liberty for adjournment. you’re abusing the method of law. You argue,” the CJI had told Bahadur’s counsel declining his request refused to adjourn the hearing, noting if his nomination was justifiedly or wrong rejected trusted his eligibility.
The counsel submitted that Bahadur had earlier filed his nomination as associate degree freelance candidate and later as a candidate of the Samajwadi Party.
The functionary rejected his nomination papers on May 1, 2019, perceptive that “the nomination paper isn’t in the course of a certificate issued within the prescribed manner by the commission to the result that he has not been fired for corruption or infidelity to the state”.
