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Author: Aditya Krishna Gupta
Aditya Krishna Gupta
Penultimate year law studnet, University School of Law and Legal Studies, GGSIPU
Facts and Timeline of Proceedings Facts and Timeline of Proceedings The case is that of corruption, where one Sita Soren, a member of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly, elected from the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM Party), was indicted for accepting a bribe for casting a vote in favour of a specific candidate in the Rajya Sabha Elections. Interestingly, she didn’t vote for this candidate but voted for some other person who belonged to JMM only. When charged with corruption, Sita Soren resorted to the obvious option of approaching the High Court for quashing the charges, where some tweaking of the interpretation…
