The Nationalist Congress Party MP from Lakshadweep, Mohammad Faizal has been sentenced to 10 years in jail with 3 others in connection with a murder case filed in 2009. He has also been disqualified as a member of Lok Sabha; the Lok Sabha secretariat said this at late Friday by issuing the notification disqualifying him.

“Consequent upon his conviction by the Court of Sessions, Kavaratti, Lakshadweep in Sessions case no. 01/2017, Shri Mohammed Faizal P.P., Member of Lok Sabha representing the Lakshadweep Parliamentary Constituency of the Union Territory of Lakshadweep stands disqualified from the membership of Lok Sabha from the date of his conviction i.e. 11 January 2023 in terms of the provisions of Article 102(l)(e) of the Constitution of India read with Section 8 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951” written in the notification issued against him.

On Wednesday, the district session court in Kavaratti has suspended the bail of the NCP MP with other accused who were taken to Kerala’s Kannur central jail. As per the prosecution, MP Mohammad Faizal has led a group of people to attack Congress leader Mohammad Saliah son-in-law of former Union Minister PM Sayeed after an altercation and critically injuring him. An attempt for murder was later registered against Faizal and others under the IPC. Later Mohammad Saliah was flown to Kerala and underwent the treatment for many months in a private hospital.

The prosecution has accused a total of 32 people in the case, of forming an unlawful assembly and causing hurt to the complainant with weapons with the intent to kill him the first four were convicted and the MP was the second accused in the case.  The clash took place during the Lok Sabha election in 2009. The judge rejected their contention citing medical reports and the long hospitalisation of the victim, though the council was accused of the minor scuffle.

It was pleased by the appellants that the evidence is supported or by the interested parties and without any corroboration. The alleged weapons used in the assault are not recovered and the injuries were simple and minor, the appeal said. One of the appellants is a sitting member of the parliament and there is no allegation of abusing his office.

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