The Supreme Court docket will hear Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) Councillor Kuldeep Kumar’s petition on Monday towards Punjab and Haryana Excessive Court docket’s refusal to grant a direct keep on the Chandigarh Mayor election consequence wherein a Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) candidate was declared as Mayor of Chandigarh Municipal Company.
A bench of CJI DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra will hear the petition on Monday.
The controversial Mayoral ballot in Chandigarh reached the apex courtroom after the excessive courtroom refused to right away keep the election consequence after the INDIA Bloc claimed that the elections had been received by the BJP by forgery. The AAP councilor sought contemporary elections underneath the supervision of a retired Excessive Court docket choose.
Nevertheless, the excessive courtroom solely issued discover within the case and listed it for additional listening to on February 26.
Manoj Sonkar, the Mayor candidate from BJP was elected because the Mayor on Tuesday after successful 16 votes towards the 12 votes obtained by the Congress-AAP candidate Kuldeep Kumar.
The presiding officer Anil Masih rejected 8 votes as invalid whereas counting. Kumar then moved the Punjab and Haryana excessive courtroom alleging fraud by BJP. The AAP Councillor alleged that the rejection of the eight votes was completed by forgery.
After the excessive courtroom on Wednesday refused to remain the outcomes, a Particular Depart Petition (SLP) was filed by Kumar within the Supreme Court docket on Thursday.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann had stated on Wednesday that the get together will transfer the highest courtroom for an early listening to within the matter.
“Right now will go down in historical past as a ‘black day’ in our nation’s democracy. Sadly, this is identical month that we commemorate Republic Day. Right now, the Structure has been shredded. The BJP ‘looted’ the Chandigarh mayor election in entrance of the media and cameras. Beforehand, they did this in Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra, and the northeastern states. So that is their previous behavior,” Mann acknowledged throughout a press convention.
The row over the elections erupted after AAP and Congress who collectively contested the Mayoral elections underneath the INDIA bloc accused the presiding officer Anil Masih of refusing to permit the nominees of events to watch the counting of votes.
They’ve additionally alleged that movies from the election clearly reveal that the Masih shuffled the votes from one basket to a different and tampered with poll papers.
“The video is obvious. What report does Chandigarh Administration have to present in three weeks,” Mann stated whereas addressing the media on the excessive courtroom’s order.