Supreme Court to examine law on jailed MLAs’ right to cast vote

New Delhi: The Supreme Courtroom on Monday stated it’s going to look at the regulation on rights out there to imprisoned members of legislative meeting (MLAs) to vote even because it denied interim aid to 2 imprisoned Maharashtra MLAs to forged vote in state legislative council elections.

Former Maharashtra house minister Anil Deshmukh and cupboard minister Nawab Malik had sought to be launched quickly for a day to forged their votes within the legislative council (MLC) elections held on Monday.

The courtroom, nevertheless, noticed that the petition raised a vital authorized query pertaining to the suitable of an MLA to vote in MLC elections on behalf of his constituency. “It’s barely undemocratic,” a division bench orally noticed about an individual who has been elected to the meeting however can not vote within the MLC elections.