Petition on voters list posted to Nov. 8

November 01, 2018 11:23 pm | Updated 11:23 pm IST - HYDERABAD

A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) alleging discrepancies in electoral rolls filed by Congress leader and former Minister Marri Shashidhar Reddy was posted to November 8 by the Hyderabad High Court on Thursday.

A division bench comprising Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan and Justice S. V. Bhatt heard Ravi Shankar Jandhyala and Amit Sharma, counsel, respectively, for the petitioner and the Election Commission of India.

The bench said the ECI could not treat petitions against it as ordeal and it would not close the petitions about complaints regarding voters lists in Telangana immediately.

The petitioner charged that the ECI was trying to hurry through the election process by not rectifying wrong entries and bogus voters in the electoral rolls. The bench pointed out that no order had been passed against the ECI so far.

Tagged to PIL

Justice A.V. Sesha Sai on Thursday ordered that the writ petition filed by the main opposition leader in Andhra Pradesh Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy, seeking probe by an independent agency into the attempt on his life, be tagged to a PIL filed on the same issue.

The petitioner's lawyer contended that the content and the pleas of the PIL and the writ petition were different.

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