Senas Devhare disqualified,MNSs Patankar gets ward

The disqualification of Shiv Sena corporator Pravin Devhare in ward no.185 by the Bombay High Court on Thursday came as a blow to the saffron party in the Hindu-dominated area.

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The disqualification of Shiv Sena corporator Pravin Devhare in ward no.185 by the Bombay High Court on Thursday came as a blow to the saffron party in the Hindu-dominated area. The court instead appointed MNS candidate Prakash Patankar as the corporator.

Devhare,one of the 17 corporators who were accused of submitting fake caste certificates during the civic elections of 2007,had challenged the case in the Bombay High Court.

He had sought a stay on the findings of the scrutiny committee that found the certificates fake.

On Thursday,however,the High Court disqualified Devhares nomination and appointed Patankar who had secured the second highest number of votes 909 votes short of Devhares 9,800. Municipal secretary Mrudul Joshi said that as the matter was going on in court,that particular ward did not have a corporator for the past three years. Following the courts ruling,the MNS candidate will now be appointed. The ward did not have a corporator till now, said Joshi.

Patankar said he was happy that the court ruled against his Shiv Sena rival. Devhare had issued a fake caste certificate to gain undue advantage. The courts ruling is fair, said Patankar. After Thursdays ruling,the strength of the MNS party in the BMC has increased from seven to eight and that of Sena has reduced by one making it 87.

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