However, PTI reported that a vacation bench of Justices CT Ravikumar and Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia agreed to examine the issue relating to the interpretation of Section 62(5) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, which bars jailed persons from voting.
Deshmukh and Malik’s last week Bombay High Court dismissed the petitionswith a single-judge bench of Justice NJ Jamadar, “one of the objects of prohibition under the Act is said to arrest the criminalization of politics. Therefore, I am not inclined to accept the broader proposition that individuals Democracy is strengthened by allowing (who are not otherwise eligible to vote in an election).”
Malik and Deshmukh are in jail in two separate cases of money laundering.
Voting for the MLC elections in Maharashtra ended at 4 pm on Monday. Eleven candidates were in the fray in the elections for the 10 seats of the Legislative Council.
BJP The five candidates are Praveen Darekar, Ram Shinde, Shrikant Bhartiya, Uma Khapre and Prasad Lad. The Congress candidates are Bhai Jagtap and Chandrakant Handore. The NCP candidates are Ramraje Nimbalkar and Eknath Khadse. Shiv Sena The candidates are Amshya Padvi and Sachin Ahir.
Of the 288 MLAs in Maharashtra, 285 voted as Malik and Deshmukh were not allowed to participate and Ramesh Latake, a Shiv Sena MLA, died last month.
The NCP is short of just one vote to get both its candidates elected.
Earlier in the day, Shiv Sena had claimed that Malik and Deshmukh not allowed to vote It was like “trampling” the rights of two elected representatives.