New Delhi, April 26: The Supreme Court today refused to stay the Election Commission’s decision to conduct poll on May 4 to fill up the sole vacancy in the Maharashtra Legislative Council for which Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan is contesting.
A three-judge bench of justices J M Panchal, Deepak Verma and B S Chauhan, however, allowed the petitioner, Shiv Sena MLC Anil Dattatray Parab, to implead the Chief Minister and issued notice to the Election Commission on the petition accusing the poll body of having a “nexus” with the ruling party to facilitate Chavan’s election.
The petition alleged that the Commission was going ahead with the May 4 poll by seeking permission of the Bombay High Court despite the fact that an petition challenging the election of the Congress MLC Sanjay Dutt was pending before the latter. Dutt has vacated the seat to facilitate Chavan’s election.
—-Pti