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MP govt to move SC against stay to Lodhi's conviction
    Jabalpur, Nov 12 (PTI) The Madhya Pradesh government
will challenge in the Supreme Court the High Court's stay to
the conviction and sentence of BJP leader Prahlad Lodhi in an
assault case, the state advocate general said on Tuesday.
     On November 7, the Madhya Pradesh high court stayed
the conviction and two-year sentence of Lodhi till January 7,
and granted him bail.
    Before that, Assembly Speaker had disqualified Lodhi,
MLA from Pawai, following his conviction, a decision
criticised by opposition BJP as taken in undue haste.
    "The state government is going to file a special leave
petition in the Supreme Court challenging the MP high court's
decision to stay conviction and sentence of disqualified BJP
MLA Prahlad Lodhi," advocate general Shashank Shekhar said.
    The SLP will be filed in a day or two, he added.
    On October 31, Lodhi challenged the Bhopal trial
court's order which had convicted him with 12 others and
sentenced him to two years in jail for attacking the tehsildar
revenue official) of Raipura in August 2014.
    The tehsildar was attacked after he seized a tractor
which was smuggling sand.
    Two days after the trial court's verdict, Madhya
Pradesh Assembly Speaker N P Prajapati disqualified the BJP
MLA.
    Lodhi and others were convicted under IPC sections 353
(assault on public servant to deter him from discharge of his
duty) and 332 (voluntarily causing hurt to a public servant)
of the Indian Penal Code. PTI COR LAL MAS ARU
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