Lucknow, Dec. 19 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has rejected a public interest litigation seeking the implementation of the Election Commission of India's (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) guidelines for the upcoming three-tier panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh.

The order was passed by a division bench of chief justice Arun Bhansali and justice Jaspreet Singh on December 17 in response to the PIL filed by Narendra Kumar Tripathi, a resident of Sant Kabir Nagar. The court observed that the State Election Commission's process was already at an advanced stage.

The petitioner had approached the high court seeking a direction to the respondents, including the Election Commission of India and the State Election Commi...