New Delhi | Supreme Court of India rejects Patidar leader Hardik Patel’s urgent hearing on the plea filed by Patel to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Hardik Patel had requested an urgent hearing seeking the suspension of his conviction in the 2015 rioting case.
“The order was passed in August 2018. What is the urgency now?” the bench said while refusing to accord urgent hearing on the petition.
The incident of rioting had taken place in 2015 during the Patidar protest for reservation in Mehsana district, which was the epicentre of agitation.
As per Representation of the People Act, 2015 Patel is prohibited to contest elections due to his conviction.
In July 2018, the sessions court at Visnagar had sentenced Patel to two years’ imprisonment for rioting and arson in Visnagar town during the 2015 Patidar quota stir.
The high court granted him bail and suspended his sentence in August 2018, but his conviction was not stayed.
As per the act, a convicted cannot contest elections unless the conviction has stayed.
Hardik Patel is one of the star campaigners of Congress.
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