What is YS Jagan's fate now after SC Order - 'Yemi Sethura Linga Yemee Sethu'
Now a BIG question to YSRCP President YS Jagan Mohan Reddy who is in Chanchalguda jail since last one year on many cases. Yesterday Supreme Court gave an order those who are in Jail or Police Custody can't participate in the elections from now on.
In a major shock to YSR Congress which is pinning hopes for a return to power in coming polls, the judgment of the Supreme Court barring persons who in jail or police custody from contesting polls will likely shut doors for its chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy who was planning to contest the 2014 general elections.
A bench comprising Justices A.K. Patnaik and Justice S.J. Mukhopadhayay, upholding a verdict of the Patna High Court barring people in police custody to contest polls, said, “We do not find any infirmity in the findings of the High Court in the common order that a person who has no right to vote by virtue of the provisions of sub-section (5) of Section 62 of the Representation of Peoples’ Act 1951 is not an elector and is therefore not qualified to contest the election to the House of the People or the Legislative Assembly of a State.”
Besides Jaganmohan Reddy, Gali Janardhan Reddy, former minister of Karnataka, Mopidevi Venkata Ramana, former Andhra Pradesh excise minister are under judicial custody in Chanchalguda Central Prison.
Gali Janardhan Reddy is facing prison in illegal mining case of Obulapuram Mining Company and Jagan-mohan Reddy and Mopidevi are languishing in jail as undertrials in illegal investments case.
Praduymna Kumar Reddy, one of the leading criminal lawyers of the AP High Court said, that the latest Supreme Court verdict will put an end to era of under-trial politicians fighting polls from behind the bars.
“Once the Apex Court ruled that the person who is behind the bars is no more is an elector, the question of contesting him polls does not arise,” he added.
C. Nageswar Rao, former public prosecutor opined that the finding of the apex court would not have any bar for the persons who are on bail.
The lawyer said granting of bail amounts to be pending trial in a case and as along as trial is pending; the person has every right to vote and contest in elections.The order will also be effective for panchayat polls.
A bench comprising Justices A.K. Patnaik and Justice S.J. Mukhopadhayay, upholding a verdict of the Patna High Court barring people in police custody to contest polls, said, “We do not find any infirmity in the findings of the High Court in the common order that a person who has no right to vote by virtue of the provisions of sub-section (5) of Section 62 of the Representation of Peoples’ Act 1951 is not an elector and is therefore not qualified to contest the election to the House of the People or the Legislative Assembly of a State.”
Besides Jaganmohan Reddy, Gali Janardhan Reddy, former minister of Karnataka, Mopidevi Venkata Ramana, former Andhra Pradesh excise minister are under judicial custody in Chanchalguda Central Prison.
Gali Janardhan Reddy is facing prison in illegal mining case of Obulapuram Mining Company and Jagan-mohan Reddy and Mopidevi are languishing in jail as undertrials in illegal investments case.
Praduymna Kumar Reddy, one of the leading criminal lawyers of the AP High Court said, that the latest Supreme Court verdict will put an end to era of under-trial politicians fighting polls from behind the bars.
“Once the Apex Court ruled that the person who is behind the bars is no more is an elector, the question of contesting him polls does not arise,” he added.
C. Nageswar Rao, former public prosecutor opined that the finding of the apex court would not have any bar for the persons who are on bail.
The lawyer said granting of bail amounts to be pending trial in a case and as along as trial is pending; the person has every right to vote and contest in elections.The order will also be effective for panchayat polls.
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