SC to hear plea of disqualified Karnataka MLAs on Monday
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday will hear the plea of 17 disqualified Karnataka MLAs who were disqualified by the then assembly speaker Ramesh Kumar for anti-party activities.
As the Election Commission on Saturday announced date for by-elections in the 15 assembly constituencies represented by the disqualified MLAs a lot of attention will on the apex court’s decision on Monday.
The political careers of these Congress and JD(s) MLAs mainly lies on the decision of the court as they cannot contest the by-election if the court decides to uphold their disqualification.
According to the reports Karnataka CM Yediyurappa on Sunday met Amit Shah in New Delhi and has convinced him to give party tickets to these MLAs or their family members.
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UP: Blood-soaked body of elderly man found in Hathras
Hathras (UP) (PTI): The blood-soaked body of an elderly man was found inside his house in Paharpur village here on Tuesday morning, police said.
The deceased, Jagdish Prasad Sharma, 75, who lived alone, had gone to sleep in his house on Monday night, officials said.
On Tuesday morning, his blood-soaked body was lying on a cot, with marks on his head and body indicating blows from a sharp-edged weapon, they said, adding that the police suspect murder.
Police and forensic teams reached the spot upon receiving information and sent the body for a post-mortem, they said.
Additional Superintendent of Police Ramanand Kushwaha said that Sharma, a retired Health Department employee, had been living alone since his wife's death during the COVID-19 pandemic.
He owned around 20-25 bighas of land and was also engaged in money lending, the officer said.
