Mumbai, July 5 (Reporter) In a setback to former Maharashtra Cabinet minister and Congress leader from Nagpur district, Sunil Kedar, the Bombay High Court refused to stay his five-year sentence in the Rs 117-crore Nagpur District Central Cooperative Bank Limited (NDCC Bank) scam case, a lawyer said on Friday. The bench of Justice Urmila Joshi-Phalke rejected Kedar's application seeking a stay on the conviction and suspension of the five-year sentence imposed on him by the trial court in December 2023. Legal experts say that the High Court order may prove to be a “roadblock” for Kedar to contest the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections in October-November, unless the Supreme Court grants him relief. In the detailed 27-page order made available late on Thursday, the court stated that disqualifying a person from holding public office post-conviction was in the interest of the democratic process. On December 22, 2023 a local court in Nagpur had sentenced Kedar and five others to five years' rigorous imprisonment for misappropriation of funds of NDCC Bank in 2002. Kedar was Chairman of the bank at the time of the scam...////...