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'Election Petition Takes 5 Yrs Only When Ruling Party Involved': MP High Court On State's Alleged Refusal To Send Info On Minister To ECI
['Jayanti Pahwa']
Supreme Court - High Court - Legal Breaking News | Live Law India
The court orally remarked that election petition take 5 years, when ruling party is involved and only five months when not.
The court further orally noted that this matter was not an election petition but rather a case alleging a false affidavit, upon which the ECI was looking into it.
We are not going to transgress into the jurisdiction of the Election Commission.
To this, the Counsel for State claimed, "We are part of the Election Commission.
It is not a case that it is state versus election commission, we are part of it, this is why I am saying it is an internal communication".