lawyer RK Anand, who lost the Rajya Sabha polls in Haryana, has lodged a complaint with Chandigarh Police against media baron Subhash Chandra, who won the election with the BJP backing and others.
A complaint is filed against Chandra, BJP legislator Aseem Goel, independent Jai Parkash and certain officials from the returning officer's office and other “unknown persons”.
A day before, the Election Commission had showed him videography of election process.
“Anand has lodged a complaint with Chandigarh's Inspector General of Police Tajender Singh luthra against Chandra and others for offences dealing with cheating, forgery, mischief and theft under the Indian Penal Code and the Representation of the People Act,” said Anand's lawyer VK Arora while talking to the mediapersons in New Delhi.
The complaint said, “accused Subhash Chandra hatched a criminal conspiracy with accused Aseem Goel and Jai Parkash, certain officials from the office of the Returning Officer, and other unknown persons to sabotage the process of election and secure a victory through fraud.”
“they got the original pen removed from the polling area in a clandestine and dishonest manner in order to cause sabotage to the election and wrongful loss to the complainant (Anand), thereby giving benefit of victory to accused Subhash Chandra,” the complaint added.
Subhash Chandra -- an Independent candidate supported by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party -- was elected to the Rajya Sabha from Haryana, defeating Congress-backed Independent RK Anand. Chandra got 24 votes while Anand managed 15.
As many as 14 votes were rejected in the 90-member assembly, leading to Anand's defeat. He was otherwise expected to win the Rajya Sabha seat.
The complainant said that Chandra and other accused interfered with the free exercise of electoral right of the legislators, thereby committing an offence under Section 171-C (undue influence at elections) of the IPC.
Anand claimed that Chandra and others committed the offences of theft and breach of trust by allegedly entering the polling area.
A day before, the video recording of Rajya Sabha polls was shown to Anand, Haryana Congress chief Ashok Tanwar, Cabinet Minister OP Dhankar who appeared on behalf of Cabinet Minister Birender Singh and a representative who appeared on behalf of media baron Subhash Chandra.
Earlier this week, Congress, INlD and candidate RK Anand had moved EC, alleging someone had changed the original pen provided by the election officials with another one for a while which resulted in some votes being declared as invalid during Rajya Sabha poll held on June 11 for the two seats from Haryana.