The Delhi High Court has issued a notice to the Delhi State Election Commission seeking its response to a petition seeking quashing of the notification on allocation of wards for reserved categories and women in the upcoming civic polls.
A Bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Chander Shekhar issued the notice to the commission directing it to explain the manner in which it has allotted the seats for the reserved category. The Bench was hearing the pleas filed by NGOs challenging the poll panel's February 6 notification. .
The petitions say that while the number of wards in each of the three corporations – 104 each in South and North and 64 in East — has remained the same, the number of wards in a few assembly segments has changed. The pleas also alleged that the poll panel, government and other agencies have not made reservation to different constituencies in a municipality by rotation.
