Nagpur: In a relief to Union minister Nitin Gadkari, Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court on Friday partly allowed his application to delete certain paragraphs in the election petitions filed by MPCC president Nana Patole and others alleging that he suppressed information regarding his assets while filing nomination for 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
However, Gadkari’s other two applications for rejection of the petitions and adding additional grounds in the case were rejected by the court. The minister’s applications were opposed by the petitioners through counsel Satish Uke.
“These pleadings are based on the information received by the petitioners as per averments and the affidavits. However, the source of information from whom they got such knowledge has not been disclosed, thus resulting in lack of material and complete facts therein,” said Justice Atul Chandurkar.
The judge, however, clarified that the election petitions would proceed based on the pleadings that remain after striking off the paragraphs.
The HC was hearing petitions by losing candidates, including Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi’s Sagar Dabarase and Nafiz Khan, besides Patole, who claimed that Gadkari, who contested on BJP ticket, had violated the provisions of the Representation of People’s Act, 1951.
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