O Friuday, the Apex Court dismissed a plea against the election of Congress leader Dhiraj Prasad Sahu as a Rajya Sabha member from Jharkhand in the 2018 elections.
A 3-Judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by CJi Sharad Arvind Bobde, dismissed the plea filed by BJP leader Pradeep Kumar Sonthalia & held that the votes cast by then MLA Amit Kumar Mahto was valid.
Mahto was convicted by a trial court on the date of voting on March 23, 2018.
The Supreme Court passed the order on an appeal filed against the order of the Jharkhand HC, which had dismissed a challenge to the election of Congress leader Dhiraj Prasad Sahu as a member of the Rajya Sabha.
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