Ranchi. Former Jharkhand Chief Minister and BJP leader Madhu Koda will not be able to contest the assembly elections. The Supreme Court has rejected his petition seeking stay on the sentence. Supreme Court Justice Sanjeev Khanna, Justice Sanjay Kumar and Justice R. Mahadevan’s bench gave its verdict after hearing the petition on Friday. Madhu Koda is convicted in the famous coal scam of Jharkhand. On December 13, 2017, the trial court had sentenced Madhu Koda and former coal secretary HC Gupta, former state chief secretary AK Basu and Koda’s close aide Vijay Joshi to three years imprisonment on corruption charges. He was accused of wrongly allotting Rajhara North coal block of Jharkhand to Kolkata-based company Vini Iron and Steel Udyog Limited. Koda is currently on bail.
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He has recently joined BJP and wanted to contest the Assembly elections. He had filed a petition in the Delhi High Court demanding a stay on his sentence. The single bench of the High Court had rejected his petition saying that the petitioner wanted to stay the decision only on the ground that he could contest the elections. This is not fair. Prima facie it seems that he is guilty in this case, hence there is no concrete reason to stay the decision of the lower court. This decision of Delhi High Court was challenged by Madhu Koda in the Supreme Court, but she did not get any relief.