CUTTACK: The Supreme Courtroom Tuesday suspended the sentence of Barabati-Cuttack MLA Mohammed Moquim within the Orissa Rural Housing Growth Company (ORHDC) mortgage fraud case, however didn’t keep his conviction, dashing his hopes of contesting the meeting elections subsequent month.
The Illustration of the Folks Act mandates the disqualification of MLAs sentenced to a jail time period of two years or extra, and likewise bars them from contesting elections for subsequent six years.
MLA Mohammed Moquim, a first-timer, was awarded three years’ imprisonment by a particular vigilance courtroom in Bhubaneswar on September 29, 2022.
The Congress legislator challenged the trial courtroom order within the Orissa excessive courtroom, which dismissed his enchantment and cancelled Mohammed Moquim’s bail on April 10.
Moquim then filed a particular depart petition within the Supreme Courtroom. Listening to the plea on Tuesday, a bench of justices Surya Kant and Dipankar Datta took word of the submissions made by senior advocates S Muralidhar and Pitambar Acharya on Moquim’s behalf, and issued discover to Odisha govt. The bench suspended Moquim’s sentence and granted him bail.
The Illustration of the Folks Act mandates the disqualification of MLAs sentenced to a jail time period of two years or extra, and likewise bars them from contesting elections for subsequent six years.
MLA Mohammed Moquim, a first-timer, was awarded three years’ imprisonment by a particular vigilance courtroom in Bhubaneswar on September 29, 2022.
The Congress legislator challenged the trial courtroom order within the Orissa excessive courtroom, which dismissed his enchantment and cancelled Mohammed Moquim’s bail on April 10.
Moquim then filed a particular depart petition within the Supreme Courtroom. Listening to the plea on Tuesday, a bench of justices Surya Kant and Dipankar Datta took word of the submissions made by senior advocates S Muralidhar and Pitambar Acharya on Moquim’s behalf, and issued discover to Odisha govt. The bench suspended Moquim’s sentence and granted him bail.
