Via PTI
NEW DELHI: The Very best Courtroom on Monday sought responses from the Centre and the Election Fee on a PIL difficult the validity of a provision of the Illustration of Other people Act which bars a prisoner from balloting.
A bench comprising Leader Justice Uday Umesh Lalit and justices S Ravindra Bhat and Bela M Trivedi took notice of the submissions of legal professional Zoheb Hossain and issued notices to the Ministry of House Affairs (MHA) and the ballot panel.
The plea was once filed in 2019 via Aditya Prasanna Bhattacharya, then a scholar of the Nationwide Regulation College, difficult the Constitutional validity of part 62(5) of the Illustration of Other people Act which prohibits a jailed individual from casting vote in elections.
The bench has mounted the PIL for additional listening to on December 29.
“Nobody shall vote at any election if he’s confined in a jail, whether or not beneath a sentence of imprisonment or transportation or another way, or is within the lawful custody of the police. Only if not anything on this sub-section shall practice to an individual subjected to preventive detention beneath any regulation in the intervening time in power,” reads the impugned provision of the Act.
NEW DELHI: The Very best Courtroom on Monday sought responses from the Centre and the Election Fee on a PIL difficult the validity of a provision of the Illustration of Other people Act which bars a prisoner from balloting.
A bench comprising Leader Justice Uday Umesh Lalit and justices S Ravindra Bhat and Bela M Trivedi took notice of the submissions of legal professional Zoheb Hossain and issued notices to the Ministry of House Affairs (MHA) and the ballot panel.
The plea was once filed in 2019 via Aditya Prasanna Bhattacharya, then a scholar of the Nationwide Regulation College, difficult the Constitutional validity of part 62(5) of the Illustration of Other people Act which prohibits a jailed individual from casting vote in elections.
The bench has mounted the PIL for additional listening to on December 29.
“Nobody shall vote at any election if he’s confined in a jail, whether or not beneath a sentence of imprisonment or transportation or another way, or is within the lawful custody of the police. Only if not anything on this sub-section shall practice to an individual subjected to preventive detention beneath any regulation in the intervening time in power,” reads the impugned provision of the Act.
