Fadnavis to face trial after SC quashes clean chit in poll affidavit case
Fadnavis to face trial after SC quashes clean chit in poll affidavit case The case relates to an allegation that Fadnavis, in his election affidavit filed in 2014, had failed to disclose the pendency of two criminal cases against him Current Affairs :- In a shock to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said the BJP pioneer should confront preliminary for purportedly neglecting to outfit subtleties of two pending criminal cases in his political race sworn statement in 2014. A seat headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi put aside the Bombay High Court request which had given a spotless chit to Fadnavis and had held that he didn’t have the right to be pursued for the supposed offenses under the Representation of Peoples (RP) Act. “The respondent (Fadnavis) has the learning of the two pending cases,” the seat, additionally involving Justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose, said. The peak court’s decision went ahead the intrigue of...