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Maha: Three Akola corporators disqualified over invalid caste certificates

Akola, July 16 (UNI): Three corporators of the Akola Municipal Corporation have been disqualified after the Caste Scrutiny Committee declared their caste validity certificates invalid, dealing a setback to the Congress, AIMIM and the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar).
The disqualified corporators are Amreen Sadaf Syed Nazim of the NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar), elected from Ward No. 16-B, Seema Anjum Shaikh Anis of AIMIM from Ward No. 2-A and Shaikh Abdullah Shaikh Salim of the Congress from Ward No. 1-A.
All three had been elected from reserved wards.
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