A choice on an software filed by state Agriculture Minister Manikrao Kokate, looking for a keep on his two-year conviction in a dishonest case, has been additional adjourned to March 5. The periods courtroom in Nashik stated the data from the Justice of the Peace courtroom, which had convicted Kokate, are but to be acquired and directed the courtroom to ship the data and proceedings to it.
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Kokate was convicted on February 20 on expenses, together with dishonest and forgery, in a case pending over 30 years. The Justice of the Peace courtroom had discovered that Kokate and his brother had acquired two flats beneath the discretionary quota of the chief minister meant for the economically weaker, by fabricating paperwork.
He has filed a legal attraction, which is presently pending listening to earlier than the periods courtroom. His attorneys have sought a keep on the conviction, which can placed on maintain any penalties of being a convict, together with disqualification as a member of the legislative meeting. The Illustration of Folks Act has provision for disqualification of an individual discovered responsible for not lower than two years in a legal case.
In the meantime, the periods courtroom in Nashik on Saturday additionally rejected the intervention pleas of two individuals who stated that they wished to intervene as residents and voters. The courtroom stated that that they had no locus standi to intervene within the proceedings. Whereas certainly one of them additionally sought time to deliver paperwork on report claiming that Kokate had not given correct disclosure on the time of submitting his affidavit earlier than the election fee, the courtroom rejected the plea.
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