'Fake' petition targeting Koraput ex-MLA angers Orissa high court

Cuttack | Sunday | 24th March, 2019

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In 2014, he could not contest as a caste certificate case had been slapped on him then and the matter had been under inquiry. It must have been filed by some other person impersonating me for mischievous purposes," he said in an affidavit along with a miscellaneous case petition to drop the case/proceeding. "I have never filed any such writ petition before this court. CUTTACK: A 'fake' petition aimed at preventing a BJD candidate from contesting the polls has created a flutter in the Orissa high court here.The petition, filed allegedly by way of impersonation, sought the high court's help to prevent BJD leader and former Koraput MLA Raghuram Padal from fighting the polls from the SC-reserved assembly seat. The latest petition sought the quashing of SLSC order..