Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): The Supreme Court recently restored a criminal case against former MLA Rajendra Singh, his father Amreek Singh, and others for acquiring a fraudulent caste certificate to contest Guna Legislative Assembly constituency as a reserved category candidate, claiming to be member of Sansi, a Scheduled Caste.

The criminal complaint and the order taking cognisance were restored to the file of the Chief Judicial Magistrate First Class, Guna. The trial will proceed from that stage and will be concluded within a period of one year.

As per SC order, the case involves allegations of cheating, forgery, and other related offences. A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and KV Vishwanathan allowed the appeals filed by complainant Komal Prasad Shakya and others, setting aside the Madh

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