Election Commission Goes To Supreme Court Over High Court’s “Murder” Rap

New Delhi:

The Election Fee has complained to the Supreme Court docket in opposition to what it referred to as “blatantly disparaging remarks” by the Madras Excessive Court docket over holding polls amid the lethal second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The excessive court docket on April 26 mentioned the Election Fee “ought to in all probability be booked for homicide” for not stopping political rallies for Tamil Nadu election amid a Covid spike. The excessive court docket later mentioned in its order that “for free of charge can counting grow to be a catalyst for an extra surge”. Votes for elections to 4 states and one Union Territory will likely be counted tomorrow.

“The Madras Excessive Court docket made blatantly disparaging and derogatory remarks,” the Election Fee instructed the Supreme Court docket right this moment. In its plea, the Election Fee mentioned the Madras Excessive Court docket regardless of being an impartial constitutional authority made “severe allegations of homicide on one other impartial constitutional authority with none foundation, which has in the end dented each the establishments.”