Supreme Court’s decision in the Chandigarh Mayor election case.
Chandigarh: A hearing was held in the Supreme Court today in the ongoing dispute regarding Chandigarh Mayor elections. During the hearing, the Supreme Court has commented on this matter. The Supreme Court has said that the returning officer tampered with the electoral process. The CJI told the returning officer that this is a very serious matter. Whatever you say, if there is any lie then action will be taken against you. Why were you looking into the camera and marking the ballot papers? Returning officer Masih said that all the ballot papers were mutilated. I was just marking them. There were so many cameras that I was just looking at them. On this the CJI said that it is clear that you are marking X on the ballot paper.
Returning officer marks the ballot papers
The CJI said that you can sign the ballot papers, but why were you putting tick or X on those ballot papers. Rule 11 says you can sign, but which rule says you can put a tick or an X on those ballot papers. Why were you marking those ballot papers? You have marked it. He will have to be prosecuted. This cannot be allowed in an electoral democracy.
New returning officer will be appointed
The CJI said that we will ask the Deputy Commissioner to appoint a new returning officer who is not associated with any political party and let the process resume from the stage where it had stopped and the process of Registrar General of HC counting etc. Will monitor. We will order ballot papers here. We will ask the HC Reg General to appoint a person and submit all the records before us tomorrow. We will list it tomorrow and look at the ballot paper and decide what to do.
Ballot papers will be brought to the court tomorrow at 2 pm
The CJI said the AG pointed out that in compliance with the interim order the ballot papers were seized and taken into custody by the High Court. The ballot papers which are kept in the custody of the Regt General should be produced before this Court by the Judicial Officer by 2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon. Necessary security arrangements will be made to ensure safe transit and proper preservation and custody of the ballot papers with the judicial authorities.
The business of buying and selling is troublesome.
The CJI said that this whole business of horse-trading that is going on is very disturbing. Let us tell you that the complete video of vote counting will also be presented tomorrow afternoon. The CJI said that Returning Officer Anil Masih says that he marked 8 ballot papers besides signing others and said that this was done to mark the mutilated ballot papers. We are troubled by the horse-trading that took place.
What is the matter of mayor election?
Let us tell you that the election of the Mayor of Chandigarh Municipal Corporation was held on January 30. In the counting of votes, 8 votes of the opposition were invalidated. In such a situation, BJP registered victory. In these elections, BJP had won all three posts. In the election for the post of Mayor, BJP’s Manoj Sonkar defeated AAP’s Kuldeep Kumar. Sonkar got 16 votes, while his rival Kumar got 12 votes. At the same time, eight votes were declared invalid.
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