Election Commission Tells High Court

The Karnataka State Election Fee on Tuesday informed the Excessive Courtroom of Karnataka that the State authorities had taken away its powers making it unable to carry elections to Zilla Panchayat and Taluk Panchayats as mandated by the Supreme Courtroom. A trip division bench of the Excessive Courtroom comprising Justice SG Pandit and Justice MG Uma heard the Election Fee’s petition in the present day. Following final week’s Supreme Courtroom course to carry the ZP-TP elections instantly, the Fee filed a memo earlier than the Excessive Courtroom to listen to the pending petition citing emergency.

The Excessive Courtroom requested the Fee’s counsel why a memo was filed earlier than it as a substitute of following the Supreme Courtroom’s course. The counsel submitted to the Courtroom that the State Authorities had withdrawn the Election Fee’s energy on delimitation of constituencies and drawing up the reservation record. With out these the State EC was unable to announce the election schedule. The State had shaped a separate panel for the delimitation and reservation regardless that the EC had accomplished the train by itself. The EC had challenged this earlier than the Excessive Courtroom. The courtroom noticed {that a} detailed examination of the petition was mandatory and adjourned the listening to to Might 23.

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