Prakash Raj gets bail from Bengaluru court in multiple voter ID case.
Actor Prakash Raj appeared in a Bengaluru court in the Voter ID case and sought bail after a non-bailable warrant. The court withdrew the warrant after his lawyer said the summons was never served and granted bail on a cash surety of Rs 4,000.
Actor Prakash Raj appeared before the 48th Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate court in Bengaluru on Friday in a case related to voter ID card, after the court had earlier issued a non-bailable warrant against him for failing to respond to the court notice.
During the hearing, his lawyers sought withdrawal of the warrant while the actor appeared in the court in person to seek bail.
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After hearing the arguments, the 48th ACJM court withdrew the non-bailable warrant and granted bail to Prakash Raj. He was granted bail on furnishing a cash surety of Rs 4,000, thereby ending the immediate proceedings arising out of the warrant.
During the hearing, Prakash Raj’s lawyer argued that he was never sent the summons and he came to know about the proceedings only through media reports and other sources. After this the court accepted the application demanding withdrawal of the warrant.
The case pertains to allegations that Prakash Raj has voter ID cards in multiple states. As per the background of the case, a complaint was filed by lawyer Dilip Kumar at Halasuru Gate police station in 2019, alleging that the actor has voter ID cards in four states including Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Telangana, which if proven, would violate election rules.
The complainant alleges that the police did not take any action on the complaint. He later contacted the Bengaluru City Police Commissioner and the Election Commission of India, and after receiving no response from either authority, moved the court.
Under Election Commission rules, a citizen can be registered as a voter at only one place in the country. It has been alleged in the complaint that Prakash Raj has violated these provisions by possessing multiple voter identity cards. The 48th ACJM court had reportedly issued summons to the actor on two occasions, directing him to appear before it, but he did not appear on either date, following which the court issued the non-bailable warrant.