Nawab Malik, Anil Deshmukh Move Top Court To pick out Maharashtra Polls
Earlier, a special PMLA court rejected the pleas filed by Nawab Malik and Anil Deshmukh seeking a day's bail to select the Rajya Sabha polls.
Maharashtra ex-home minister Anil Deshmukh and cabinet minister Nawab Malik on Monday approached the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay tribunal order rejecting their pleas to vote at the Maharashtra
Legislative Council (MLC) polls that's going down today.
Senior advocate Meenakshi Arora appearing for ministers mentioned the matter before a bench of Justices CT Ravikumar and Sudhanshu Dhulia and sought an urgent hearing of the case today itself.
The bench said files of the case are placed before justice NV Ramana who will decide when the case are going to be heard and said it'll be told by 12 noon.
They sought direction to permit their temporary release to cast his vote using police escorts.
Earlier, a special PMLA court in Mumbai rejected the pleas filed by Nawab Malik and Anil Deshmukh seeking a day's bail to take the Rajya Sabha elections.
The two Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLAs Mr Malik and Mr Deshmukh are presently incarcerated as undertrial prisoners in separate concealment cases being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate.
Mr Deshmukh was arrested on Allhallows, 2021, in reference to extortion and concealment allegations levelled against him by the previous Mumbai commissioner Param Bir Singh.
The ED had arrested Minorities Development Minister Mr Malik on February 23 over a property deal allegedly linked to the aides of gangster Dawood Ibrahim. Mr Malik is presently during a hospital, albeit under Judicial custody.
The court had earlier denied Mr Malik and Mr Deshmukh permission to vote for the June 10 Rajya Sabha elections citing section 62(5) of the Representation of People's Act to mention they're not permitted to vote since they're in prison.
A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been moved within the Supreme Court seeking directions to the Maharashtra government to sack cabinet minister Nawab Malik, who is presently in judicial custody in reference to the case of cash laundering.
