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EC to reopen Ashok Chavan 'paid news' case probe

With the chief election commissioner SY Quraishi retiring in June, he has fast paced hearings in the “paid news” case against former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan.

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With the chief election commissioner SY Quraishi retiring in June, he has fast paced hearings in the “paid news” case against former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan.

The case pertains to a complaint filed by BJP leaders Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Madhavrao Kinhalkar, Kirti Somaiya and four others regarding publication of advertisements in various newspapers during the election campaign period for the Maharashtra Assembly held in September-October 2009,  in the garb of news eulogising him and his achievements as CM.

Chavan won assembly polls from Bhokar constituency.
The commission has fixed next date of hearing on May 17, amid indications that there will be daily hearings as Quraishi wants to decide the case before he demits office.

The complaint alleged that Chavan had showed just Rs5,379 as the expenses on newspaper advertisements in his accounts filed before the commission. In the complaint filed on November 2009, it was specifically prayed to investigate the account of election expenses of Chavan under Section 10 A of the Peoples' Representation Act 1951.

Chavan had  tried to scuttle the probe by first moving the Delhi high court and then the Supreme Court (SC), but both ruled that the EC was well within its rights to probe the accounts. The ECI has now swung into action to reopen the probe after getting a nod from the SC. The complainants have sought Chavan's disqualification from the assembly.

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