{"id":49277,"date":"2017-08-01T07:02:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T01:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=49277"},"modified":"2017-08-01T07:02:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T01:32:02","slug":"sc-agrees-hear-plea-cancel-nitishs-legislative-council-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-agrees-hear-plea-cancel-nitishs-legislative-council-membership","title":{"rendered":"SC agrees to hear plea to cancel Nitish&#8217;s Legislative Council membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_49206\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49206\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/nitish-kumar759.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"49206\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/hc-adjourns-till-monday-petitions-challenging-new-nitish-govt\/launch-of-developmental-schemes-of-department-of-energy\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/nitish-kumar759.jpg?fit=759%2C422&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"759,422\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;PTI&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar addressing at a function for the inauguration of developmental schemes of Department of Energy in Patna on Thursday. 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PTI Photo  (PTI5_11_2017_000111A)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/nitish-kumar759.jpg?fit=640%2C356&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-49206 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/nitish-kumar759.jpg?resize=300%2C167&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SC agrees to hear plea to cancel Nitish's Legislative Council membership\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/nitish-kumar759.jpg?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/nitish-kumar759.jpg?resize=150%2C83&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/nitish-kumar759.jpg?w=759&amp;ssl=1 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SC agrees to hear plea to cancel Nitish&#8217;s Legislative Council membership<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a plea seeking cancellation of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar&#8217;s membership of the state Legislative Council for allegedly concealing a pending criminal case against him.<\/p>\n<p>A bench of Justices Justice Dipak Misra, Amitava Roy and A M Khanwilkar said it will look into the matter after petitioner advocate M L Sharma sought an urgent hearing of his plea.<\/p>\n<p>The bench said it would see when the matter could be listed for hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The plea, which was filed yesterday, alleged that there was a criminal case against the JD(U) leader wherein he was accused of killing a local Congress leader Sitaram Singh, and injuring four others ahead of Lok Sabha by-election to the Barh constituency in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioner has also sought a direction to the CBI to register an FIR against Kumar in the case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Respondent number 2 (Election Commission), despite knowing facts about his (Kumar&#8217;s) criminal case, did not cancel his membership of the house and respondent (Kumar) still enjoys constitutional office till date,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer has sought cancellation of Kumar&#8217;s membership as per the Election Commission&#8217;s 2002 order stating it is mandatory for candidates to disclose criminal cases against them in their affidavits annexed to nomination papers.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed the Bihar chief minister did not disclose the criminal case that was pending against him in affidavits since 2004, except for 2012.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a plea seeking cancellation of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar&#8217;s membership of the state Legislative Council for allegedly concealing a pending criminal case against him. 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