Supreme Court rejects plea to disqualify Satyendar Jain

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the petition to disqualify Satyendar Jain from MLA and Minister in the state government, who is in judicial custody in a money laundering case since May 30, and declare him as "a person with unsound mind" and disqualify him from the Assembly on this ground.

A bench of justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Abhay S Oka dismissed the plea with cost. "The petition is so misconceived and such a wastage of judicial time that it necessitates an imposition of costs of Rs.20,000/- on the petitioner," the court said and directed that the cost to be deposited with the Supreme Court Mediation and Conciliation Project Committee (MCPC) within four weeks.

The petitioner Ashish Kumar Srivastava has filed his petition through Advocate-on-Record Nirmal Kumar Ambastha and advocate Rudra Vikram Singh.

The Petitioner has challenged the Delhi High Court order dated August 16 2022.

The petitioner submitted that the Delhi Government is clearly violating the Provisions of the Constitution of India under Article 191, which clearly states that a Person shall be disqualified for being chosen as, and for being, a member of the Legislative Assembly or Legislative Council of State if he is of unsound mind.

The petitioner further submitted that one of the Cabinet Minister in the Delhi Government Satyendra Kumar Jain, also a member of the Legislative Assembly from Shakur Basti Assembly constituency since 2015 himself, declared that he lost his memory, before the Officers of the Enforcement Directorate and the same has also been informed to the Special Judge Rouse Avenue District Court, New Delhi by the Additional Solicitor General. (IANS)

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