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SC agrees to hear plea seeking cancellation of Bihar CM membership of state Legislative Council

The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a plea seeking cancellation of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's membership of the state Legislative Council for allegedly concealing a pending criminal case against him.<br/><br/>A bench of Justices Justice Dipak Misra, Amitava Roy and A M Khanwilkar said it will look into the matter. The plea, which was filed yesterday, alleged that there was a criminal case against the JD(U) leader wherein he was accused of killing a local Congress leader Sitaram Singh, and injuring four others ahead of Lok Sabha by-election to the Barh constituency in 1991. <br/><br/>The petitioner claimed that Mr. Kumar did not disclose the criminal case that was pending against him in affidavits since 2004, except for 2012.

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