The Bombay High Court on Tuesday cancelled the caste certificates issued to Amravati Lok Sabha member Navneet Kaur Rana, saying it was obtained fraudulently utilizing fabricated paperwork, and directed her to give up it inside six weeks.
A division bench of Justices R D Dhanuka and V G Bisht additionally imposed a value of Rs 2 lakh, which she must pay to the Maharashtra Legal Services Authority inside a interval of two weeks.
The HC famous that the declare of belonging to ‘Mochi’ caste made by Rana for acquiring the Scheduled Caste certificates itself was fraudulent and made with an intention to acquire numerous advantages obtainable to a candidate from such class, regardless of figuring out she doesn’t belong to that caste.
Rana was elected from Maharashtra’s Amravati Lok Sabha constituency in 2019.
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