EC may frame charges against Ashok Chavan in paid news case
May 22, 2014  19:18
The Election Commission is likely to frame charges against former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan tomorrow in connection with the alleged' paid news' and furnishing of "incorrect" election accounts case against him.

Chavan, who recently won the Lok Sabha polls on a Congress ticket from Nanded, will be represented by a team of lawyersafter he informed the EC that his "authorised" counsel willappear before the poll body in response to its summons issuedto him last week.

"Chavan has asked for framing of charges in this case bythe EC against him. The Commission will conduct a hearing inthis regard tomorrow in the presence of the former CM's lawyers," sources privy to the development said.

A similar case of furnishing allegedly false election accounts by former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda has been postponed till May 26, the sources said.

 The EC, on the directions of the Supreme Court, had issueda notice to Chavan last week to appear before it in connection with the case of alleged expenses made by him during the 2009 polls which were categorised as "paid news".
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