{"id":42806,"date":"2016-05-02T10:25:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T04:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=42806"},"modified":"2016-05-02T10:25:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T04:55:12","slug":"delhi-court-holds-aap-mla-cant-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/delhi-court-holds-aap-mla-cant-charged","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Court holds AAP MLA can&#8217;t be charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42027\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42027\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/akhilesh.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"42027\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/aap-mlas-medical-claim2-govt-officials-certify-docs\/akhilesh-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/akhilesh.jpg?fit=700%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"700,400\" 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=\"medical claim\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;medical claim&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;medical claim&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/akhilesh.jpg?fit=300%2C171&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/akhilesh.jpg?fit=640%2C366&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-42027 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/akhilesh.jpg?resize=300%2C171&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Delhi Court holds AAP MLA can't be charged \" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/akhilesh.jpg?resize=300%2C171&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/akhilesh.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Delhi Court holds AAP MLA can&#8217;t be charged<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Delhi court has dismissed a corruption complaint against an AAP MLA, saying though it had prima facie found that he had breached the cap for poll expenses during 2013 Assembly election, he cannot be charged under Prevention of Corruption Act as he was not a public servant at that time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have gone through the complaint and the documents thoroughly from which, it prima facie appears that respondent 1 (Tripathi) incurred more election expense than prescribed limit. However, in my prima facie opinion the same was incurred when he was only a contesting candidate for the post of MLA and not a public servant,&#8221; Special Judge Hemani Malhotra said.<\/p>\n<p>The court&#8217;s order came on a complaint filed against Akhilesh Pati Tripathi, MLA from Model Town here, for allegedly spending over the prescribed limit of Rs 14 lakh in the 2013 election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The judge further said, &#8220;The act\/conduct of Tripathi by submitting accounts after he became an MLA to explain the expenditure incurred by him before he was elected as MLA is not an offence committed under the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act as when the election expenses were incurred, he was not a public servant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The court also said that the remedy\/action against a candidate&#8217;s misconduct lies under the Representation of the People Act, 1950 which may result in disqualification of an elected candidate.<\/p>\n<p>The court also referred to a Supreme Court verdict in which it had said under the Election Rules if an account is found to be incorrect or untrue by Election Commission after enquiry, the Election Commission may disqualify the said person.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint filed by activist and lawyer Vivek Garg had also sought FIR against some officials of Election Commission (ECI), Delhi Chief Electoral Office (CEO) here and some officials of Delhi government, for allegedly colluding with Tripathi to manipulate the account of expenditure incurred by him.<\/p>\n<p>The court, while dismissing the plea, also noted that a sanction to prosecute the officials of ECI, CEO and Delhi government was missing and referred to a Supreme Court judgement saying the court cannot take notice of private complaint against a public servant without a sanction order.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Court cannot lose sight of the fact that the complainant has also impleaded responsible officials of the Election Commission of India and of government of Delhi who are public servants, as proposed accused under PC Act,&#8221; it said<\/p>\n<p>Referring to an apex court judgement, the judge said, &#8220;It has been categorically held that Special Judge could not have taken notice of the private complaint against the public servant unless the same was accompanied by a sanction order.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The judge, however, agreed with the contention of the complainant that no sanction was needed to prosecute an MLA.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Delhi court has dismissed a corruption complaint against an AAP MLA, saying though it had prima facie found that he had breached the cap for poll expenses during 2013 Assembly election, he cannot be charged under Prevention of Corruption Act as he was not a public servant at that time. &#8220;I have gone through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38299,"featured_media":42027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[24749,34207,36108,2671,31987,117,80,2372],"class_list":["post-42806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-aap","tag-aap-mla","tag-akhilesh-pati-tripathi","tag-delhi-court","tag-featured","tag-law","tag-legal-news","tag-prevention-of-corruption-act"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Delhi Court holds AAP MLA can&#039;t be charged - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Delhi court has dismissed a corruption complaint against an AAP MLA, saying though it had prima facie found that he had breached the cap for poll - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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