The Supreme Court on Sunday has ordered newly elected lawmaker Resham Lal Chaudhary, who is the main accused in the lynching of eight police personnel and an infant in Tikapur incident of August 2015, to collect his certificate of victory himself.

Chaudhary had demanded that the Election Commission provide his election certificate through his attorney.

Earlier, the SC Registrar General had decided to deny the registration of a writ filed by Chaudhary seeking collection of his election certificate through a proxy stating that suspects named in crimes of serious nature cannot appoint agents.

Following the SC administration decision Chaduary had filed another petition against the act.

However, a single bench of Justice Tanka Bahadur Moktan said the refusal was made following due procedures and upheld the SC Registrar General's decision.

The SC order read, "One should go through due legal process to clear their names if they are not guilty of the crime or if the charges leveled against them are false."

The order also opined that anyone avoiding legal trials should not be allowed to enjoy facilities by overlooking the fact that they are suspected of a crime.

Rastriya Janata Party (RJP) candidate Chaudhary, who is in the most wanted list of police, had won the parliamentary election with a wide margin of 20,935 votes.