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Delhi HC Upholds Validity Of The Provision Which Prohibits Prisoners From Voting In Elections - Delhi High Court has refused to declare section 62(5) of the Representation of the People Act, which prohibits prisoners from voting in elections, as unconstitutional. While upholding the validity of the said provision, the Division Bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Hari Shankar has held that the classification of the persons who are in jail and who are out of jail is a valid classification and it has a reasonable nexus with the objects sought to be achieved by the Act. The present plea of Public Interest Litigation was filed by one of the prisoners, challenging the constitutional validity of section 62(5) of the Representation of the People Act. The said provision reads as: 'No person shall vote at any election if he is confined in a prison, whether under a sentence of imprisonment or transportation or otherwise, or is in the lawful custody of the police.' Th

The death penalty of the criminals adjourned The court today conceded the execution of convicts in the Nirbhaya assault case. The execution was planned to happen on March 3 at 6am. The decision comes after a seat of judges N V Ramana, Arun Mishra, R F Nariman, R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan said that no case is made out for rethinking the conviction and the discipline of the convict. Court has conceded the issue as the kindness request of one of the convicts, Pawan is pending before the President of India. The Union Home Ministry got the leniency appeal of Pawan Gupta, one of the four death row convicts, authorities said on Monday. The service will send the request to President Ram Nath Kovind for his thought and decision. The Supreme Court dismissed his remedial request before that day. Gupta had documented the request last Friday, looking for the changing of his capital punishment to life detainment. A five-judge seat headed by Justice N V Ramana, which thought ab