Saturday, August 25th, 2018

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected petitions by the CPI(M) and the BJP seeking to cancel elections to more than 20,000 local body seats in West Bengal that were won without a contest, giving relief to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Every one of those seats was won by Trinamool Congress candidates, and the opposition had claimed its candidates were stopped from filing nominations. What the court ruled A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, and including Justices D Y Chandrachud and A M Khanwilkar, used its special powersRead More