A special court on Wednesday reserved its order in pleas filed by the Nationalist Congress Party leaders and Maharashtra Cabinet Minister Nawab Malik and former Home Minister of Maharashtra Anil Deshmukh from jail seeking bail for one day to cast their vote in the Rajya Sabha elections on June 10.
Nawab Malik and Anil Deshmukh have been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on charges of money laundering and are both lodged at the Arthur Road Jail.
Senior advocate Amit Desai appearing for Mr. Malik argued that as a sitting Member of Legislative Assembly it is his duty to vote and said there cannot be a preventive detention for a person prohibiting him from exercising a constitutional right to vote, that is illegal. He added, disqualification from voting arises if a convict comes to court, Mr. Malik is an undertrial.