The Supreme Court on Tuesday posted for next week for hearing a said it plea seeking to debar convicted Members of Parliament and State Legislative Assemblies from contesting elections for life.
The Thane court on Tuesday granted bail to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA and Former Minister Jitendra Awhad on a bond of Rs 15,000 against the accusations of touching a woman with the wrong intention.
Earlier on Saturday, Bharatiya Janata Party decided to field Pradip Purohit as its candidate for Padampur seat located in Bargarh district and Congress announced Satya Bhusan Sahu's name as its candidate.
Bhanupratappur, an assembly constituency reserved for the scheduled tribes in Chhattisgarh, will go for by-elections on December 5 as the seat fell vacant for the death of Congress MLA and deputy speaker Manoj Mandavi.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rida Rashid, who filed a molestation complaint against Nationalist Congress Party MLA Jitendra Awhad, on Monday said that he had pushed her aside while she was trying to meet Chief Minister Eknath Shinde during an event yesterday.
A woman lodged an FIR against Awhad in a molestation case. She alleged that when the new bridge was being inaugurated in Mumbra, MLA Awhad had touched her with the wrong intention.
The AIUDF MLA from the Dalgaon assembly constituency alleged that the Prime Minister wants to continue as the Prime Minister and therefore he is trying to segregate the country in the name of Hindu and Muslim.
While dismissing the complaint, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Harjot Singh Jaspal of Rouse Avenue Court said, " Freedom of speech protects actions that the society may find very offensive and society's outrage alone is not a justification for suppressing free speech."
Congress has retained Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu who is the party's former state chief and who won in the 2017 Assembly election defeating BJP's Vijay Agnihotri. He is seen as one of the contenders for the top post of the Chief Minister in case Congress wins the Assembly polls.
The Dalhousie seat which comes under the Chamba district is set to witness a tough fight between the two parties with the Aam Aadmi Party trying to leave a mark in the elections.