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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that vote cast by a Jharkhand Mukti Morcha MLA in the 2018 Rajya Sabha election hours before his conviction, sentence and resultant disqualification as a legislator, was valid, thus saving Congress a member in the upper House of Parliament, which it had won by a razor thin margin.
The interesting question before a bench of CJI SA Bobde and Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian was whether the vote cast by an MLA in a poll to Rajya Sabha, in the forenoon on the date of election, would become invalid upon his disqualification, arising out of a conviction and sentence imposed by a criminal court, in the afternoon the very same day?