Devendra Fadnavis Appears In Nagpur Court: Denies Any Wrongdoing In Poll Affidavit

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today appeared before Nagpur court in connection with an application seeking action against him.

He was alleged of non-disclosure of criminal cases in his election affidavit in 2014 and denied all the allegations.

Therefore, Mr. Fadnavis’s statement was recorded in a written format under the provision of section 313 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC). Under this provision, the court puts forth questions to an accused on the evidence relied upon by the complainant in the case.

Mr. Fadnavis appeared before Civil Judge VA Deshmukh at 12 noon with his lawyers, when they were given 35 pages with 110 questions.

Where he himself wrote down the answers to each question after discussion with his lawyers.

Later, his lawyer told reporters that the BJP leader denied all the contentions and allegations made in the complaint and said that he hadn’t committed any “crime or wrongdoing.”

Mr. Fadnavis left the court premises after 1½ hours. The court posted the matter for final arguments on May 6.

Satish Uke, an advocate, filed the application seeking criminal proceedings against Mr. Fadnavis alleging that cases of cheating and forgery had been registered against the BJP leader in 1996 & 1998 but he didn’t disclose this information in his poll affidavit ahead of the 2014 assembly elections.

Presently, Mr. Uke is in jail after he was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on charges of money laundering.