Orissa High Court Invalidates Election of Cuttack-Babarati MLA Mohammed Moquim

Cuttack: The election of Cuttack-Babarati MLA Mohammed Moquim was annulled by the Orissa High Court on Monday.

The High Court came up with this decision while hearing a petition filed by BJD leader Debashish Samantaray. In his petition, Samantaray had challenged the election of Moquim alleging that the MLA while filing the nomination papers in 2019 suppressed facts about the criminal cases pending against him.

The BJD leader also alleged in the petition that Moquim did not disclose facts about his assets and liabilities.

Moquim defeated Samantaray in the Cuttack-Babarati assembly constituency in the 2019 polls.