Major Blow to NCP! Lakshadweep MP Mohammad Faizal, serving 10-yr jail term, disqualified from Lok Sabha
Lawyers associated with the case said the District and Sessions Court in Kavaratti also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh each on the convicts in the attempt to murder case registered against them in 2009.
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New Delhi, January 14: The Nationalist Congress Party MP from Lakshadweep, Mohammad Faizal, has been disqualified as Lok Sabha member. The Lok Sabha secretariat said on Friday after the lawmaker, along with three others, was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in connection with an attempt to murder case filed in 2009.
In a statement, the Lok sabha Secretariat said, “Consequent upon his conviction by the Kavaratti Sessions Court, Mohammed Faizal PP, Member of Lok Sabha representing the Lakshadweep Parliamentary Constituency of the Union Territory of Lakshadweep stands disqualified from the membership of Lok Sabha from the date of his conviction i.e. 11 January, 2023 in terms of the provisions of Article 102(1)(e) of the Constitution of India read with Section 8 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951”.
Mohammad Faizal, NCP MP who represented Lakshadweep in the Lok Sabha has been disqualified from the Lower House of Parliament
— Poulomi Saha (@PoulomiMSaha) January 14, 2023
Yesterday, a court in Lakshadweep sentenced Faizal to 10 years imprisonment in a 2009 attempt to murder case pic.twitter.com/HcLZPcanu9
Lawyers associated with the case said the District and Sessions Court in Kavaratti also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh each on the convicts in the attempt to murder case registered against them in 2009.
According to the lawyers, the MP and others attacked Padanath Salih, son-in-law of former Union Minister PM Sayeed, when they had reached their neighbourhood for intervening in a political issue during the 2009 Lok Sabha polls.
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