{"id":37912,"date":"2015-06-11T10:55:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T10:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=37912"},"modified":"2015-06-11T10:55:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T10:55:16","slug":"jharkhand-cm-acquitted-in-poll-code-violation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/jharkhand-cm-acquitted-in-poll-code-violation-case","title":{"rendered":"Jharkhand CM acquitted in poll code violation case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37913\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37913\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/Raghuvar-Das.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37913\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/jharkhand-cm-acquitted-in-poll-code-violation-case\/raghuvar-das\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/Raghuvar-Das.jpg?fit=290%2C174&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"290,174\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Raghuvar Das\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/Raghuvar-Das.jpg?fit=290%2C174&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/Raghuvar-Das.jpg?fit=290%2C174&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-37913 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/Raghuvar-Das.jpg?resize=290%2C174&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Jharkhand CM acquitted in poll code violation case\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jharkhand CM acquitted in poll code violation case<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghuvar Das and three others were today acquitted by a local court in Jharkhand in connection with a case related to violation of poll code of conduct in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>G K Tiwari, Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, acquitted them for lack of evidence soon after Das, along with Chandrasekhar Mishra, ex-president of Jamshedpur Mahanagar Committee of BJP, appeared before it here this morning.<\/p>\n<div>The court had recorded Das&#8217;s statement under section 313 Crpc on June 1, Das&#8217;s lawyers Nand Kishore Mishra and Bhavesh Kumar said.<\/p>\n<p>Another accused Balakram Bhat had died during course of the trial.<\/p>\n<p>According to an FIR lodged under Sitaramdera police station on the statement of then District Rationing Officer, Raman Kumar, it was stated that Das, then a BJP sitting MLA and also a BJP candidate from Jamshedpur East Assembly segment for 2009 Assembly<\/p>\n<div>polls, had opened a party camp office beside a temple without prior permission from the East Singhbhum district administration in violation of the election code of conduct.<\/p>\n<p>A case had been registered against Das and others under section 3(1) of Bihar Defacement of Property Act.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghuvar Das and three others were today acquitted by a local court in Jharkhand in connection with a case related to violation of poll code of conduct in 2009. 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