{"id":8378,"date":"2019-12-14T08:52:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T08:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/?p=8378"},"modified":"2019-12-14T08:52:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T08:52:28","slug":"mp-high-court-refuses-to-dismiss-petition-challenging-pragya-thakurs-election-to-lok-sabha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/mp-high-court-refuses-to-dismiss-petition-challenging-pragya-thakurs-election-to-lok-sabha\/","title":{"rendered":"MP High Court refuses to dismiss petition challenging Pragya Thakur\u2019s election to Lok Sabha."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source &#8211; hindustantimes.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Madhya Pradesh High Court\u2019s principal bench at Jabalpur has dismissed Bhopal BJP MP Pragya Thakur\u2019s objections against a petition challenging her election in the Lok Sabha polls earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Bhopal based journalist has accused Thakur of winning the polls by inciting communal passion and sought that her election is declared null and void.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rakesh Dixit had submitted MP\u2019s campaign speech videos in a compact disc (CD) along with newspaper articles alleging her statements violated section 123 of The Representation of the People Act, 1951.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pragya Thakur had challenged Dixit\u2019s petition by alleging he had not adhered to the Indian Evidence Act which required filing of an affidavit for submission of electronic evidence gathered from a computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bench of Justice Vishal Dhagat dismissed her objections and said the hearing on the election petition against her would continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pragya Thakur\u2019s close associate Bhagwan Jha said, \u201cWe will study the order and see what legal remedy we can get at this stage.\u201d Thakur couldn\u2019t be reached for her comments.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/mp-high-court-refuses-to-dismiss-petition-challenging-pragya-thakurs-election-to-lok-sabha\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"5\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source &#8211; hindustantimes.com The Madhya Pradesh High Court\u2019s principal bench at Jabalpur has dismissed Bhopal BJP MP Pragya Thakur\u2019s objections against a petition challenging her election in the Lok Sabha polls earlier this year. A Bhopal based journalist has accused Thakur of winning the polls by inciting communal passion and sought that her election is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2971],"tags":[1790,6771,6770,6768,6769],"class_list":["post-8378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-madhya-pradesh-high-court","tag-bjp","tag-dixits-petition","tag-lok-sabha-2","tag-mp-high-court-3","tag-pragya-thakur-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8380,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8378\/revisions\/8380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}