by Alok Mohit
PATNA: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday announced the by-election schedule for Kurhani assembly constituency in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar.
According to ECI, polling will be held on December 5 and the results will be declared on December 8. The notification for the byelection will be issued on November 10 and the last date of nominations is November 17.
The nominations will be scrutinised on November 18. while the last date of withdrawal is November 21.
The by election in Kurhani has been necessitated following disqualification of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MLA Anil Kumar Sahni from the Bihar assembly after a Delhi court awarded him three-year jail term in the LTC scam case.
A court at Rouse Avenue in New Delhi had convicted Sahni, who represented Kurhani assembly seat, and two others on August 29 and sentenced them to three-year imprisonment two days later after holding them guilty of attempting to avail travel allowance in 2012 using forged Air India e-tickets without having undertaken the journeys.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which probed the case, alleged in the chargesheet, filed in 2015, that Sahni, then Janata Dal (United) member of Rajya Sabha, and others had submitted claims of Rs 23.71 lakh.
