India, Feb. 2 -- The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to list Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillor Kuldeep Kumar's plea for fresh mayoral polls in Chandigarh without specifying a date for it, days after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday won the election after a fourth of the votes were scrapped.
The AAP and Congress alleged vote tampering and prompted Kumar to move the court seeking fresh polls.
"It will be listed," a bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud and justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra said after senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi mentioned the matter for urgent listing. Singhvi cited a video purportedly showing returning officer Anil Masih acting unfairly. "This is serious. We are seeking an u...
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