Mahato admitted in a four-page statement in Hindi filed in the trial court that he and three other JMM MPs, Suraj Mandal, Shibu Soren and Simon Marandi, had received Rs 50 lakh each to vote ...

Besides, imposing a life ban amounts to rewriting RPA’s Section 8 by replacing ‘six years’ with ‘life-long’. “Courts cannot direct Parliament to make a law or to legislate in a particular way… it goes ...