A petition has been submitted to the Supreme Court questioning the automatic disqualification of Rahul Gandhi under the Representation of the People Act (RPA).

An appeal was filed in the supreme court on Saturday against the automatic expulsion of lawmakers from parliament or the State Assembly after a conviction in a criminal case. The petition challenged the constitutional legitimacy of section 8(3) of the Representation of people’s Act, 1951. Advocate Deepak Prakash filed the Read more…