Purpose Of S.8(3) Of Representation Of People Act To Keep Away Convicts From Contesting Elections: Bombay HC [Read Order]

A single bench of the Bombay High Court has held that the object of the legislature in enacting Section 8(3) of the Representation of People Act was to keep away convicts from contesting elections.Justice AM Badar rejected an application seeking a stay on the conviction of the applicant under S. 307(Attempt to murder) of the IPC by the sessions court in Pune. The stay was sought so that...