A periods courtroom in Nashik has reserved orders on a plea by state agriculture minister Manikrao Kokate, in search of a keep on a conviction in a dishonest case final week. The courtroom is more likely to move orders on the plea on March 1.
A Justice of the Peace courtroom in Nashik discovered Kokate responsible of dishonest and forgery in a case relationship again to 30 years. He and his brother had been alleged to have falsified paperwork to accumulate two flats in Nashik reserved for the economically weak.
Kokate had sought a keep on the conviction. If stayed, Kokate won’t face disqualification as a Member of the Legislative Meeting. The Illustration of Individuals Act, 1951, stipulates that an individual convicted for any offence and sentenced to imprisonment for not lower than two years shall be disqualified from the date of conviction. If the conviction is stayed pending a call on the enchantment, the disqualification can’t be carried out or can’t stay in impact. On Monday, the periods courtroom suspended his sentence and heard arguments on Tuesday on why the conviction ought to be stayed.
The case in opposition to Kokate and his brother, Sunil, was filed by former minister Tukaram Dighole, in 1995, alleging that they’d solid paperwork to fraudulently receive two flats in Nashik, below the Chief Minister’s discretionary quota reserved for the economically weaker sections.
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