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Sanjay Dutt can't contest polls: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Tuesday disallowed actor Sanjay Dutt to contest elections from the Lucknow Lok Sabha seat and refused to suspend his conviction in a criminal case.
"We are not inclined to suspend his conviction," said a Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan. "It is not a fit case to grant stay of conviction," said the Bench, which also comprised Justices P Sathasivam and R M Lodha.
The court said that the power of the court to suspend the conviction of a person to enable him to contest the elections has to be exercised rarely.
The court refused to stay Dutt's conviction, saying his case does not have parity with that of cricketer-turned-parliamentarian Navjot Singh Sidhu, who had resigned his seat after his conviction in a case of unintentional killing.
Dutt has been sentenced to six years in jail by a Mumbai anti-terror court hearing the 1993 serial bomb blasts in the city.
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I hope the court will scan the other candidates as well with the same criteria.
@ raindrops :- in India it is very difficult to get the facts forget about taking the case forward. But i think now media plays a imp role and things are changing.. may be taking baby steps but they are deff changing
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