Congress’s Rajya Sabha MP Rasheed Masood looks set to beat Lalu Prasad to the dubious distinction of being the first convicted lawmaker to lose his Parliament seat.
Masood, minister of state for health in the V P Singh government between 1990 and 1991, was sentenced to four years in jail by a special CBI court for allegedly manipulating admissions in medical colleges. This is the first conviction and sentencing of a lawmaker after July 10 when the Supreme Court ordered that MPs, MLAs and MLCs would lose their seats automatically upon conviction.
Before the SC order, convicted legislators could hold on to their seats by appealing against their convictions within three months.
RJD boss Lalu is set to follow suit, with a CBI court slated to sentence him on Thursday in a fodder scam case.
Masood, along with two ex-bureaucrats, was held guilty of fraudulently nominating candidates to MBBS seats allotted to Tripura.
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