Maneka seeks MLA's ouster for poaching

The Pioneer , Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Correspondent : Staff Reporter

Former Union Minister and animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi has raked up a 1991 poaching case pending against Orissa's senior Congress MLA from Brahmagiri, Lalatendu Mohapatra.

In a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner BB Tandon, she has sought Mohapatra's disqualification for concealing the fact in the nomination that he filed for the 2004 Assembly elections.

Besides, in a separate letter to the Orissa High Court Chief Justice, Gandhi has prayed for expediting the trial against Mohapatra.

In her letters, Gandhi has mentioned that the Congress leader along with eight others had on April 13, 1991, illegally entered the Satkosia Reserved Forest in Angul district for poaching.

They had been apprehended and arms and ammunition had also been seized from them. A case (No- 2-B- CC 65/91) under Sections 27, 29, 31, 32 and 52 of Wildlife Protection Act 1972 was registered against them.

Mohapatra and his friends, however, were released on bail by the then Angul sub-divisional judicial magistrate. Stating that the SDJM had no power to grant bail in such a case, Gandhi has requested the Chief Justice to take note of the judicial deviation.

Gandhi has maintained that as required under 33A of India People's Representation Act, the Congress leader had not stated the fact that he was out on bail.

 
SOURCE : The Pioneer, Tuesday, June 06, 2006
 


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