Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, June 20: Former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh and state minority affairs minister Nawab Malik’s bail was denied on Monday by the Supreme Court to vote in the legislative council elections, which closed at 4 p.m. today.
After the Bombay high court refused their bail petitions on Friday, both politicians moved to the apex court earlier in the day (June 17).
The Maharashtra legislative council (MLC) elections include 10 seats and 11 candidates in the running. In the western state, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), which is one of the members of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) cabinet, has 51 parliamentarians.
After the Bombay high court rejected their bail applications, both Deshmukh and Malik were denied the right to vote in the recent Rajya Sabha elections. The leaders of the NCP are currently being held in judicial detention on money laundering charges.
Deshmukh was detained by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in February this year in connection with a money laundering case against fugitive criminal Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar and his associates, which was filed by former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh.
