The Supreme Court today refused to set aside a Karnataka High Court order, which has disqualified woman BJP MP J Shantha from Bellary (ST) Lok Sabha seat, but allowed her to attend the Parliamentary proceedings without exercising her voting right or availing any perquisite.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Observing that BJP MP election in 2009 had “materially affected” the result of the election, the court ordered re-counting to be completed within four weeks.<\/p>\n
Chandregowda, in his petition, had also accused BJP MP Shantha of producing a false caste certificate. He had submitted that Shantha who actually belonged to “Boya” community, which comes under backward community in southern Indian states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, had submitted a caste certificate which says “Hindu Valmiki” community, which is a Scheduled Tribe since Bellary is a reserved constituency for the scheduled tribes.<\/p>\n
However, this ground of the election petitioner was not considered by the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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