Bombay HC issues notice to ECI on plea claiming discrepancies during 2024 Maharashtra Assembly elections

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Bombay HC issued a announcement to the ECI implicit discrepancies successful voting during Maharashtra Legislative Elections 2024. The seat issued announcement to responsive authorities and sought their effect during adjacent day of proceeding aft 2 weeks. (Archive Photo/Pradeep Kocharekar)

The Bombay High Court connected Monday issued notices to the Election Commission of India (ECI) and authorities Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) connected a plea raising concerns implicit alleged discrepancies successful the voting process connected November 20, 2024, the polling time for Maharashtra authorities assembly elections, including ‘unusually precocious percent of votes’ formed during past minutes and post-closing hours (6PM).

A seat of Justices Ajey S Gadkari and Kamal R Khata was proceeding a writ plea by metropolis nonmigratory Chetan Chandrakant Ahire who claimed that over 75 lakh votes were polled aft authoritative voting clip of 6 pm and respective discrepancies were recovered successful implicit 90 constituencies wherever fig of votes counted did not lucifer with those polled, and determination was nary transparency successful the process.

Advocate Prakash Ambedkar, representing the petitioner claimed that determination was nary transparent strategy of signaling oregon verifying authenticity of astir 75 lakh votes and the Returning Officers (ROs) failed to comply with the guidelines successful ECI ‘handbook’ for conducting elections and did not study discrepancies to ECI.

The plea sought directions from the tribunal to ECI to disclose the nonstop fig of tokens distributed to voters aft 6 p.m. astatine each polling station, and full tokens distributed crossed each constituency segments. It besides sought declaration of full votes formed and polled aft 6 p.m. and successful the extremity sought declaration that results declared by respective ROs of each assembly constituency arsenic ‘null and void’ owed to non-compliance of norms, and procedural lapses and besides sought contiguous withdrawal of predetermination certificates issued by specified ROs.

The seat issued announcement to responsive authorities and sought their effect during adjacent day of proceeding aft 2 weeks.

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