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NEW DELHI: Lakshadweep NCP MP Mohammed Faizal was on Thursday disqualified from the Lok Sabha after Kerala high court rejected his plea for suspension of conviction in a murder case.
In its order rejecting the plea for suspending the NCP lawmaker’s conviction, the high court noted that criminalisation of the election process was a matter of grave concern in India’s democratic polity.
It said that if those with criminal antecedents were permitted to continue as Members of Parliament/ Legislatures even after conviction by a competent court, “that would only send wrong signals to the public at large”.
The high court said that the materials before it prima facie indicate the criminal acts on the part of the accused.
A sessions court in Lakshadweep on January 11 had sentenced Faizal and three others for attempting to kill Mohammed Salih, son-in-law of the late union minister P M Sayeed, during the 2009 Lok Sabha elections.
Faizal had moved the Kerala high court against the order and the HC had suspended his conviction and sentence on January 25.
The January 25 decision of the high court was challenged by the Lakshadweep administration in the Supreme Court.
The apex court on August 22, had termed the high court decision as “erroneous” and set aside the verdict suspending the conviction of the NCP lawmaker.
The top court had temporarily protected the status of Faizal as an MP for three weeks, saying the benefit of the high court’s impugned order, staying the suspension, will remain in operation during the period keeping in mind that there should not be any vacuum with regard to representation of the Lakshadweep Lok Sabha constituency in Parliament.
It had remanded the matter back to the high court and asked it to decide afresh the lawmaker’s application seeking a stay of his conviction within this period.
(With inputs from PTI)
In its order rejecting the plea for suspending the NCP lawmaker’s conviction, the high court noted that criminalisation of the election process was a matter of grave concern in India’s democratic polity.
It said that if those with criminal antecedents were permitted to continue as Members of Parliament/ Legislatures even after conviction by a competent court, “that would only send wrong signals to the public at large”.
The high court said that the materials before it prima facie indicate the criminal acts on the part of the accused.
A sessions court in Lakshadweep on January 11 had sentenced Faizal and three others for attempting to kill Mohammed Salih, son-in-law of the late union minister P M Sayeed, during the 2009 Lok Sabha elections.
Faizal had moved the Kerala high court against the order and the HC had suspended his conviction and sentence on January 25.
The January 25 decision of the high court was challenged by the Lakshadweep administration in the Supreme Court.
The apex court on August 22, had termed the high court decision as “erroneous” and set aside the verdict suspending the conviction of the NCP lawmaker.
The top court had temporarily protected the status of Faizal as an MP for three weeks, saying the benefit of the high court’s impugned order, staying the suspension, will remain in operation during the period keeping in mind that there should not be any vacuum with regard to representation of the Lakshadweep Lok Sabha constituency in Parliament.
It had remanded the matter back to the high court and asked it to decide afresh the lawmaker’s application seeking a stay of his conviction within this period.
(With inputs from PTI)
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