The constitutional bench of Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday has asked for the recording of the fake news broadcast by a television channel in Dhanusha-3.
The constitutional bench of five senior justices including Chief Justice Gopal Parajuli hearing the petition filed by left alliance candidate from CPN (Maoist Center) Ram Singh Yadav, who has been demanding for reelection in Dhanusha-3 claiming that he lost the election due to the fake news, has sought the recording of the news. Election-related cases are heard by the constitutional bench of SC.
Rajendra Mahato of Rastriya Janata Party Nepal (RJP) had defeated Bimalendra Nidhi of Nepali Congress (NC) by almost 3,000 votes in the constituency.
Yadav, who came third behind the two, had moved the court claiming that he lost the election due to a fake news by a local news channel claiming that the left alliance had agreed to support Mahato on the election day December 7.
"A breaking news was broadcast claiming left alliance candidate Ram Singh Yadav has reached agreement with Mayor of Janakpur Sub Metropolitan City Lal Kishore Sah to support RJP. I was defeated due to the news broadcast during the silence period. Another result arrived due to the act done to influence the voters. Please do order a fair election again," the petition filed by Yadav reads.
Yadav had received 2,346 votes. Mahato had won by securing 30,750 votes to beat Nidhi who received 27,847 votes.
Similarly, the constitutional bench hearing the petition filed by Nepali Congress (NC), who lost the provincial assembly poll in Tanahu-2 (A) to Asha Koirala of CPN (Maoist Center) by just five votes, has also ordered that all the ballots from the constituency be produced before the court. Paudel has demanded recounting claiming he lost due to rigging.
