PALAMAU: 44 out of 189 candidates -- 23 per cent -- contesting in the first phase of 2019 Jharkhand assembly polls have declared criminal cases against themselves. Meanwhile, 26 (14 per cent) have admitted they have serious criminal cases against themselves.
Shashi Bhushan Mehta of BJP has highest cases against him, the protests erupt as murder accused he joins BJP under the presence of several BJP stalwarts in Ranchi office. As the family members of the victim Suchitra Mishra, a school warden, stage protests outside headquarter.
Dr. Mehta, 56, who is one of the main accused in the Suchitra Mishra murder case and is currently out on bail. He was the director of Oxford Public School at Pragati Path, Ranchi, while Mishra worked there as a warden. Suchitra's battered body was found by a roadside near Gandhi Ashram in Dhurwa in May 2012.
As per the affidavit, he has filled with Election Commission (EC), the total 11 cases recoded, the serious IPC were 14, while 18 seem other IPC related. The cases pending against him are –
- IPC Sections - 302, 201, 34, Other Details - , Case No. - ST. 155/2013, Court - AJC-XX Ranchi, FIR No. - Dhurwa Ps. 99/2012, Charges Framed - Yes, Date Charges Framed - 20 Mar 2013, Appeal Filed – No.
- IPC Sections - 120B, 420, 468, 471, Other Details - Section 13(i)(D) PC Act, Case No. - , Court - Sri SK Mishra Special Judge CBI Ranchi, FIR No. - RC Case 11(A)/2014R, Charges Framed - Yes, Date Charges Framed - 15 Sep 2018, Appeal Filed – No
- IPC Sections - , Other Details - Section 33, 41, 42 IF Act, Case No. - , Court - Sri S. Ali, JMFC Palamu , FIR No. - CF 209/2007, Charges Framed - Yes, Date Charges Framed - 13 Apr 2018, Appeal Filed – No
- IPC Sections - 188, Other Details - Section 127(B) RP Act, Case No. - , Court - Sri Rohit Kumar, JMFC, FIR No. - Lesliganj PS. 25/2016, Charges Framed - Yes, Date Charges Framed - 20 Feb 2019, Appeal Filed – No
- IPC Sections - 188, 427, 171F, Other Details - Section 123, 137 R.P. Act, Case No. - GR. No. 2762/2016, Court - Sri Rohit Kumar, JMFC, FIR No. - Panki Ps. 91/2014, Charges Framed - Yes, Date Charges Framed - 15 Feb 2019, Appeal Filed – No
- IPC Sections - 188, 147, 323, 353, Other Details - , Case No. - , Court - Sri Manoj Kumar JMFC , FIR No. - Tarhasi Ps. 68/2016, Charges Framed - Yes, Date Charges Framed - 15 Feb 2019, Appeal Filed – No
- IPC Sections - 171E, 171F, Other Details - , Case No. - , Court - Sri Rohit Kumar JMFC, FIR No. - Manatu Ps. 34/2014, Charges Framed - Yes, Date Charges Framed - 23 Mar 2017, Appeal Filed – No
- IPC Sections - , Other Details - Section 132(IV), 125 RP Act, Case No. - , Court - Sri Rohit Kumar JMFC, FIR No. - Lesliganj Ps. 24/2016, Charges Framed - Yes, Date Charges Framed - 20 Dec 2018, Appeal Filed – No
- IPC Sections - 171E, 171F, Other Details - , Case No. - , Court - CJM Palamu , FIR No. - Tarhasi Ps. 24/2016, Charges Framed - Yes, Date Charges Framed - 15 Feb 2019, Appeal Filed - No
- IPC Sections - 143, 147, 323, 325, 307, 427, , Other Details - , Case No. - GR No. 2276/2014, Court - CJM Palamu , FIR No. - Tarhasi Ps. 66/2014, Charges Framed - No, Appeal Filed – No
- IPC Sections - 341, 323, 325, 506, 188, 171E, 34, Other Details - Section 123(ii) RP Act, Case No. - , Court - Sri SK Mishra JMFC Palamu, FIR No. - Lesliganj Ps. 30/2016, Charges Framed - No, Appeal Filed – No.
While, there has no conviction as yet, the affidavit says. The submission, Dr. Bhushan has made such as - 3 charges related to undue influence or personation at an election (IPC Section-171F) 3 charges related to bribery (IPC Section-171E) 2 charges related to voluntarily causing grievous hurt (IPC Section-325) 1 charge related to Murder (IPC Section-302) 1 charge related to Causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender (IPC Section-201) 1 charge related to Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property (IPC Section-420) 1 charge related to Forgery for purpose of cheating (IPC Section-468) 1 charge related to Attempt to murder (IPC Section-307) 1 charge related to criminal intimidation (IPC Section-506) 4 charges related to Disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant (IPC Section-188) 3 charges related to voluntarily causing hurt (IPC Section-323) 2 charges related to Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention (IPC Section-34) 2 charges related to Mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees (IPC Section-427) 2 charges related to Punishment for Rioting (IPC Section-147) 1 charge related to wrongful restraint (IPC Section-341) 1 charge related to Punishment of criminal conspiracy (IPC Section-120B) 1 charge related to Using as genuine a forged document or electronic record (IPC Section-471) 1 charge related to Assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty (IPC Section-353) 1 charge related to Being member of an unlawful assembly (IPC Section-143)
