The Bombay High Court said that purity of the electoral process and the probity of participants strengthen democracy while rejecting pleas by Nawab Malik and Anil Deshmukh to allow them to vote in the Maharashtra Legislative Council polls.
The Bombay High Court on Thursday reserved its verdict in the pleas by State minister Nawab Malik and former State home minister Anil Deshmukh seeking permission to cast vote in the upcoming Maharashtra MLC elections.
Bombay HC reserved its order for Friday on the petitions filed by Nawab Malik and Anil Deshmukh seeking permission to cast their votes in the June 20 Maharashtra MLC elections.
Malik was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on February 23 this year in connection with a money laundering probe linked to the activities of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and his aides. His party colleague Deshmukh was arrested in November 2021 by the ED on money laundering charges.