MP Navneeti Kaur's caste certificate bogus: High court slams fine

Mumbai: The caste certificate of Navneet Kaur Rana, an autonomous Member of Parliament from Maharashtra's Amravati district, has been quashed by the Bombay High Court. This certificate was fraudulently justified. The caste certificate has been revoked and confiscated as the candidate has been wrongly justified by the cast scrutiny committee by submitting forged and bogus documents, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court said in the order.

Justice. Sagittarius and justice. Bisht's division bench has directed Rana to submit the certificate within six weeks. The bench held that Rs. He has also been fined Rs 2 lakh which he will have to pay to the Maharashtra Legal Services Authority within two weeks. According to PTI, the court noted that Rana's claim to be a cobbler in order to obtain a Scheduled Caste certificate was false.

The intent to claim the benefit given to the candidate in this category was claimed when he himself was not of that caste. As a citizen of the country I respect the order of the court. I will go to the Supreme Court. "I am confident that I will get justice," Rana said after the court order.

The court passed the order on a complaint lodged by senior Shiv Sena leader Anandrao Adsull. Adsull lost to Rana in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Rana was an autonomous candidate with the support of the Congress and the Nationalist Congress.

Former Telugu actress Rana had contested as a candidate of Yuva Swabhimani Party. The party was formed by her husband Ravi Rana. After losing to Adsull in 2014, the two fought for the second time. At that time, Rana was contesting as a nationalist candidate. Rana, one of the eight women MPs in Maharashtra, could lose his post.