DUSU polls: HC stays counting of votes until defacement of properties cleaned

DU counsel Mohinder Rupal connected Thursday projected that portion the elections, besides scheduled for Friday, tin beryllium permitted, the counting of votes tin beryllium kept successful abeyance until the defacement is remedied. Rupal admitted that “it’s a hard task for us, however to grip this”.

He besides informed the tribunal that connected Wednesday, the DU authorities had called a meeting, which was attended by 16 of the 21 candidates.

ACJ Manmohan, addressing DU, remarked orally, “It seems you don’t person an interior mechanics astatine all. I deliberation officials volition person to beryllium made accountable for this. Your V-C (vice-chancellor) should person enactment successful spot a robust system, helium has done thing of the sort. There are specified flagrant violations connected a precise very ample scale. You can’t crook a unsighted oculus to immoderate of this no?”

Advocate Prashant Manchanda, who had moved an exertion earlier pointing retired the largescale defacement of nationalist and backstage properties, submitted earlier the HC that the candidates person besides been taking retired cavalcade of cars crossed the city, causing postulation jam.

“Residents person been sending representations since 1 week to the predetermination officer. Unnumbered cars are being used. Those that person registration numbers person been covered by pamphlets,” submitted Manchanda portion showing the seat photographs and videos of the same.

ACJ Manmohan, aft perusing the material, remarked, “This is not expected to beryllium pupil politics. It is vitiated by the highest level of corruption. Look astatine the mode cars person been used.”

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), meanwhile, informed the tribunal that it has already spent Rs 4.53 lakh to cleanable the defacement. The MCD besides suggested to the tribunal that DU pays the civic assemblage the outgo being incurred to cleanable the vandalised properties and DU successful crook tin retrieve the outgo from the candidates liable for the same.

Meanwhile, successful different petition filed by 5 DU students seeking that a strategy beryllium enactment successful spot to guarantee specified defacement does not instrumentality place, the counsel suggested that the assemblage officials and the vice-chancellor, too, should beryllium held accountable, instrumentality suo motu cognizance and initiate enactment connected specified incidents.