Notify poll process within 10 days: HC to Punjab, EC
The Punjab and Haryana high court has directed the Punjab government and its election commission to notify election process for the civic body polls within 10 days. The high court bench of justice Harkesh Manuja said the officer concerned would reimburse ₹50,000 as litigation cost to the petitioner from his own pocket if compliance report about the same is not filed within 10 days. On October 14, high court had asked the state to declare poll schedule for five municipal corporations and 42 municipal councils/ nagar panchayats within 15 days. “.this court has no hesitation in issuing a writ of mandamus directing the state election commission, Punjab, and the state of Punjab to forthwith comply with the constitutional mandate and initiate the process of holding elections by notifying election programmes in all the municipalities and municipal corporations in question within 15 days from the date of this order without conducting the fresh exercise of delimitation,” the bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and justice Anil Kshetarpal said.
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