The Bombay High Court has cancelled the caste certificate of Navneet Kaur Rana, the independent Lok Sabha MP from Amravati, a reserved Scheduled Caste seat. The court has also imposed a fine of Rs 2 lakh on her.
A division bench of Justice R.D. Dhanuka and Justice V.G. Bishth directed Rana to surrender the caste certificate within six weeks. The court has further ordered her to pay the amount imposed on her as a fine to the Maharashtra Legal Services Authority within two weeks.
The petition was filed by former MP Anand Rao Adsul in the High Court against Rana alleging that she had filed a forged certificate. She got it validated fraudulently from Caste Scrutiny Committee by producing fabricated and fraudulent documents, to be in the eligibility criteria of filing the nomination.
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Rana contested from Amravati and won against Adsul. She had entered politics in 2014 on an NCP ticket but lost the election. However, in 2019, she contested as an independent and reached the Lok Sabha after winning the election. Her husband Ravi Rana is a Maharashtra MLA.