Delhi Assembly elections: Justice (retd) S N Dhingra moves high court challenging data collection, sop announcement by parties

The PIL is besides seeking cash-oriented schemes to beryllium declared unconstitutional and classified arsenic predetermination manipulation. It is besides seeking directions to the Election Commission of India to frame rules for governmental parties in respect of promises against currency organisation to voters.

The PIL has highlighted that the AAP, nether its strategy of Mukhyamantri Mahila Samman Yojana, has promised Rs 2,100 arsenic nonstop slope transfers each period to women voters of Delhi adjacent arsenic the Delhi government’s Department of Women and Child Development has denied specified a scheme, and successful competing with the same, different parties, too, person promised akin sops irrespective of the purported beneficiaries’ societal oregon economical status.

Noting that determination are astir 71.73 lakh women voters successful Delhi, the PIL states, “The projected organisation of Rs 2,100 per period to pistillate voters arsenic promised by Respondent Parties would effect successful a fiscal load of much than Rs 18,000 crore per annum. This constitutes implicit 23% of the State of Delhi’s full yearly budget, which is Rs 76,000 crore astir for the 1 fiscal year… specified promises successful lieu of ballot seeking represent corrupt practices nether Section 123(1) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, arsenic this seeks to unduly power voters and magnitude to bribing the voters. Furthermore, the organisation of warrant cards amounts to unauthorised election-related materials violates Section 127A of the Act.”

The PIL besides states that information postulation of voters by the 3 parties “and imaginable misuse of voters’ idiosyncratic information without their explicit consent is simply a usurpation of their cardinal close to privateness nether Article 21 of the Constitution of India namely Right to Privacy.”

Justice (Retd) Dhingra had archetypal made headlines arsenic a proceedings tribunal judge, awarding the decease condemnation to Parliament onslaught accused Afzal Guru. He had besides probed Robert Vadra onshore deals and was faced with judicial scrutiny successful 2017 for imaginable misuse of his mandate arsenic a court-appointed perceiver successful a household concern dispute. He was appointed arsenic the president of the SIT looking into the closed cases of the 1984 Sikh riots. He was elevated arsenic Delhi High Court justice successful 2006 and retired from the precocious tribunal successful 2011.

Apart from Justice (Retd) Dhingra’s petition, an predetermination petition astatine the Delhi High Court, seeking its directions to halt AAP workers from registering beneficiaries nether the Mukhyamantri Mahila Samman Yojana is pending.

Polling for each 70 Assembly seats successful Delhi volition beryllium held connected February 5 and the results counted connected February 8.

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