Insertion of new section 44B in Act IV of 1957

Insertion of new section 44B in Act IV of 1957.--After section 44A of the principal Act as so inserted, the following section shall be inserted, namely :-- "44-B. Right to information.--(1) A candidate shall, apart from any information which he is required to furnish, under this Act or the rules made thereunder, in his nomination paper delivered under sub-section

1. (1) of section 44, also furnish the information as to whether--
   • (i) he is accused of any offence punishable with imprisonment for two years or more in a pending case in which a charge has been framed by the court of competent jurisdiction ;
   • (ii) he has been convicted of an offence (other than any offence referred to in sub-section
2. (1) or sub-section (2), or covered in sub-section (3), of section 24) and sentenced to imprisonment for one year or more.
3. (2) The candidate or his proposer, as the case may be, shall, at the time of delivering to the returning officer nomination paper under sub-section
4. (1) of section 44 also deliver to him an affidavit sworn by the candidate in the prescribed form for verifying the information specified in sub-section (1).
5. (3) The returning officer shall, as soon as may be, after the furnishing of information to him under sub-section (1), display the aforesaid information by affixing a copy of the affidavit, delivered under sub-section (2), at a conspicuous place at his office for the information of the electors relating to a constituency for which the nomination paper is delivered."