Delhi: AAP MLA convicted for disrupting 2013 poll
(WorldNews India)

Poll-related offences `are a direct assault on the peaceful conduct of such elections and, therefore, need to be sternly dealt with,` a Delhi court said Tuesday, sentencing AAP MLA Manoj Kumar to three-month imprisonment for obstructing work at a polling station during the 2013 Assembly elections. Advertising Holding that `punishment needs to be deterrent in this case`, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal observed, `The convict was himself contesting the elections and is, therefore, expected to know the laws which govern the election process in this country.` `Our country is a democratic republic and democracy is the essence of governance of...