NIA court refuses to bar Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur from contesting elections

Mumbai Live Team
Apr 24, 3:54 PM IST
Politics

On April 24, a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court ruled a decision in Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur's favour as they refused to bar her from contesting Lok Sabha elections. Thakur is Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) candidate from Bhopal for the 2019 elections.

The decision on Thakur comes after her appeal to the court to dismiss an application seeking to bar her from contesting the Lok Sabha elections.

In ongoing elections, this Court does not have any legal powers to prohibit anyone from contesting elections,It is job of electoral officers to decide. This court can’t stop the accused number 1 from contesting elections, this application is negated.

However, the Agency court stated that it cannot say that there is no prima facie case against Sadhvi Pragya Thakur. The lawyer representing the applicant argued in the court that Thakur, who is an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, was out on bail citing ill health, however, she has been campaigning for the elections.

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“She isn’t attending the court proceedings on grounds of bring ill, but she is campaigning for elections where she is not looking ill,” the lawyer said.

The application has been filed by Nisar Sayyad, who lost one of his sons in the Malegaon blast.