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'Paid News' claims its first victim
Friday October 21, 2011 10:50:42 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
In a landmark verdict, the Election Commission has disqualified
Umlesh Yadav, a member of the Uttar Pradesh assembly from Bisauli
constituency, for spending Rs.21,250 on "Paid News".
Umlesh is the wife of liquor baron and strongman D.P. Yadav. Her
son Vikas has been convicted for murdering Nitish Katara. Umlesh
was elected 2007 on a Rashtriya Parivartan Dal ticket.
According to a poll panel order of Oct 20, the disqualified MLA
can't be a member of either house of parliament or of the
legislative assembly or legislative council of any state under
Section 10A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 for a
period of three years.
Yadav was disqualified by the Commission on the ground of not
showing correct accounts of her election expenses and suppressing
the expenditure incurred on paid news, said the EC in a statement
Friday.
A complaint was filed against Umlesh Yadav before Press Council of
India after which the Council investigated into the allegation of
paid news, published by Hindi dailies Amar Ujala and "Dainik
Jagaran on the eve of the assembly election, 2007.
On the basis of PCI report and the complaint filed by Yogendra
Kumar, the Commission investigated and heard both the parties and
found that Yadav had indulged in Paid News during elections and
did not disclose the true and correct account of her election
expenses before the Commission.
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