Madhya Pradesh Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti has been disqualified from the State legislative assembly following his conviction in a cheating case, officials said on Friday (April 3, 2026).
A Delhi court on Thursday (April 2) sentenced Mr. Bharti and a former bank employee to three years’ imprisonment in a cheating case involving the forging of bank records to obtain illegal interest payments between 1998 and 2011.
Special Judge Dig Vinay Singh also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on Mr. Bharti and former cashier Raghuvir Sharan Prajapati.
