India, Feb. 3 -- The Delhi high court on Monday dismissed a plea seeking directions to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to set aside minister Mukesh Kumar Ahlawat's nomination for the February 5 Delhi assembly elections for allegedly filing a false affidavit concealing information.

A bench of Justice Subramonium Prasad said one Satish Chauhan's petition was not maintainable. "How is it maintainable [as an election petition] in the eyes of the law? A false affidavit given to the returning officer is an offence under section 125A of the Representation of People's Act. I am dismissing the plea straight on the grounds that you are not calling any particular election in question," the court told Chauhan's lawyer Deepak Chauhan.

On Janu...