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Bengaluru: The Karnataka Excessive Courtroom will hear on Could 17 a plea by the Karnataka State Election Fee about holding Zilla Panchayat and Taluk Panchayat elections.
The State Election Fee (SEC) filed a memo on Thursday earlier than the holiday bench of Justices B M Shyam Prasad and M G S Kamal within the backdrop of the Supreme Courtroom verdict over holding the elections to those native our bodies instantly.
The Election Fee pleaded earlier than the Excessive Courtroom that an emergency state of affairs has risen as a result of Supreme Courtroom’s order on Tuesday.
Senior counsel Okay N Phanindra, showing for the Election Fee, submitted that the ballot physique’s petition over holding the ZP-TP elections was pending earlier than the Excessive Courtroom. So, a memo was filed for an early listening to of this matter.
The SEC had ready for the ZP-TP polls in Karnataka in April and Could of 2021. Delimitation train on constituencies have been accomplished and the ultimate record of voters was additionally revealed by the SEC. The reservation draft was additionally introduced final yr.
However earlier than the SEC might announce the election schedule, the state authorities withdrew the powers of the SEC to redraw the constituencies and put together the reservation record. The federal government created a brand new delimitation panel to conduct the train.
The Election Fee had challenged the formation of this panel in a writ petition earlier than the Excessive Courtroom. This petition was pending for listening to.
Following the SEC’s memo, the Excessive Courtroom has posted the listening to of this matter to Could 17.
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Printed on: Sunday, Could 15, 2022, 03:36 PM IST
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