Chandigarh, May 20
Over four months after the Vidhan Sabha membership of former Congress MLA from Kalka Pardeep Chaudhary was revoked by the Haryana Speaker following his conviction by a Nalagarh court, the membership was restored on Thursday following advice by the state’s Advocate General (AG).
“The membership of Chaudhary has been restored today following legal advice from AG on the petition filed by the former legislator. A notification to his effect will be issued today and Election Commission will be informed accordingly,” Speaker Gian Chand Gupta said here.
Gupta, however, clarified that the membership would be restored with effect from April 19, the date on which Himachal Pradesh High Court stayed the conviction and not January 14, the date his membership was revoked.
Haryana Congress MLA Pradeep Chaudhary Disqualified From Assembly After Being Convicted In Riot Case
Pradeep Chaudhary was sentenced to jail for three years by a Nalagarh court in Solan district of Himachal Pradesh after he was convicted in a decade-old riot and assault case PTI photo Outlook Web Bureau 2021-01-31T08:41:28+05:30 Haryana Congress MLA Pradeep Chaudhary Disqualified From Assembly After Being Convicted In Riot Case outlookindia.com 2021-01-31T13:22:45+05:30
Congress MLA Pradeep Chaudhary was disqualified from the Haryana Assembly after a Himachal court convicted him in a decade-old case on charges of assault and other penal offences, Haryana Assembly speaker Gian Chand Gupta said on Saturday.
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IN an exemplary service of justice, though coming almost a decade after the incident of assault and rioting near Nalagarh in Himachal Pradesh, 15 accused persons have been declared guilty and awarded penalty. The verdict assumes significance and has among the convicts a powerful politician the MLA from Kalka in Haryana, Pardeep Chaudhary. While when the FIR was registered at the Nalagarh police station in 2011, Chaudhary was an INLD MLA from Kalka, he has since shifted to the Congress, making the move a couple of weeks before being again elected on the party ticket in October 2019. His might in the area is evident from the fact that he wrested the Kalka Assembly seat from the sitting BJP MLA, Latika Sharma.