The Supreme Court has stayed the Bombay High Court’s determination quashing the “false caste certificate” obtained by Amaravati MP Navneet Kaur-Rana.
Since Kaur-Rana, an impartial candidate, gained from a constituency reserved for members of the Scheduled Caste neighborhood, the Bombay HC order meant she was at risk of shedding her seat. Kaur-Rana’s certificates acknowledged that she was a member of the ‘Cobbler’ neighborhood.
But a trip bench of Justices Vineet Saran and Dinesh Maheshwari on Tuesday stayed the operation of the excessive court docket’s determination and issued discover on the particular depart petition filed by them towards the HC’s determination, Live Law reported.
Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, showing for the Amravati MP, submitted that the phrases “cobbler” and “chamar” are synonymous.
The inquiry committee had decided the caste standing of the MP on the premise of unique information, Rohatgi mentioned, although the excessive court docket didn’t contest the authenticity of the paperwork, however reversed the choice of the inquiry committee by a writ petition, dwell. notified of the regulation.
Rohatgi argued that the HC’s determination was “wrong” because it had neglected a number of essential paperwork.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, showing for the petitioners who had approached the HC towards the MP’s caste certificates, mentioned the vigilance committee discovered that many paperwork have been fabricated.
The high court docket requested Sibal to file a counter-affidavit within the matter and stayed the Bombay High Court’s determination.
The Bombay HC had earlier requested Kaur-Rana to submit the certificates to the committee inside six weeks and directed them to pay the price of Rs 2 lakh to the Maharashtra Legal Services Authority inside two weeks, stating that “All the results have been supplied within the regulation. The cancellation of the certificates obtained by such fraud can be adopted.”
The court docket had additionally pulled up the District Caste Inquiry Committee, Mumbai, which had validated the certificates in November 2017, saying it “had done its job in a very sloppy manner and evaded the obligations imposed on it”.
The HC had famous that the declare made by Kaur-Rana to belong to the “cobbler” caste was fraudulent and noticed that the “two sets of documents” submitted by the MP earlier than the inquiry committee have been “contradictory to each other”. “False caste certificate” can deprive real and deserving individuals of their due advantages.
“Since the respondent has obtained the caste certificates fraudulently and has verified the mentioned caste certificates fraudulently from the caste inquiry committee by producing solid and fraudulent paperwork, such caste certificates is canceled and forfeited. It needn’t be seen that cancellation of such fraudulently obtained certificates shall adjust to all the results of the regulation supplied,” the Bombay HC had mentioned.
Kaur-Rana had gained the 2019 Lok Sabha election when the Congress-NCP alliance determined to help her, defeating the then Shiv Sena MP Anandrao Adsul.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
