India, July 30 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a plea filed by disqualified Madhya Pradesh Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti, who has challenged the Delhi High Court verdict which refused to stay his conviction in a cheating case. On April 2, a trial court had sentenced Bharti, former chairperson of the Zila Sahkari Krishi Aur Grahmin Vikas Bank, to three years' imprisonment in the case involving alleged forging of bank records to obtain illegal interest payments between 1998 and 2011.

The high court had stayed the three-year sentence awarded to the former MLA in the case on April 28 after he filed an appeal against the trial court's decision. On July 10, the high court, however, refused to stay his conviction in the case.

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