New Delhi:

A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed sooner than the Delhi High Court searching for to claim AAP chief Satyendar Jain, arrested in a cash laundering case, a “individual with unsound thoughts” and disqualify him as MLA and minister.

The petition is indexed for listening to sooner than a bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad on August 16.

Last month, the prime courtroom disregarded a plea to droop Mr Jain from the Cabinet following his arrest within the cash laundering case, announcing it’s for the manager minister to imagine whether or not an individual with a prison background must be allowed to proceed as a minister or now not.

In the moment case, the petitioner — Ashish Kumar Srivastava — claimed in his plea that Mr Jain has “himself declared that he misplaced his reminiscence” sooner than the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and knowledgeable the similar to the trial courtroom as neatly.

The plea, filed thru attorney Rudra Vikram Singh, said that in keeping with Mr Jain’s bail software sooner than the trial courtroom, the ED knowledgeable that the AAP chief has “authorized that he had misplaced his reminiscence because of serious Covid” and “the inside track of dropping the reminiscence is roofed through all media resources and it is rather a lot within the public area”.

“Continuing an unsound individual with such a lot of vital portfolios of the Government is dishonest the citizens of Delhi, who’ve elected an individual with blank symbol and excellent psychological well being… Respondent No 5 (Jain) is conserving the most important portfolio in Government and on account of his psychological sickness/unsound thoughts/reminiscence loss the general public of the NCT of Delhi will undergo so much,” the petition mentioned.

The petitioner thus asserted that during gentle of of Article 191 (1)(b) of the Constitution of India obviously, which mandates that an MLA must be disqualified if he’s of “unsound thoughts and stands so declared through a reliable courtroom, Jain can not proceed conserving the vital portfolio of a Delhi Cabinet minister and taking part in the put up of an MLA. 

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