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“Litigation Cannot Be A Hobby”: Supreme Court

Supreme Court says that litigation cannot be a hobby while dismissing a plea seeking to restrain EC from allotting election symbols

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed with cost a PIL that sought that the Election Commission (EC) be barred from allocating poll symbols claiming they were “misused” by political parties.

A bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and AS Oka imposed a cost of Rs 25,000 on the petitioner while observing that the relief claimed was “disruptive of the election process” and that litigation cannot be a “hobby”. The bench while dismissing the “misleading” petition said it was a complete waste of judicial time.

Petitioner advocate Shraddha Tripathi contended that Election Commission has no power to allot a symbol to political parties and only the Returning Officer can allot the symbols to contesting candidates.

“The law clearly states that the symbols are to be allotted at the election and by the Returning Officer and to the contesting candidate, what authority does the Election Commission possess to give the symbol to the political party and is creating a problem also,” the petitioner argued.

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The top court was hearing a plea challenging the Allahabad High Court’s 2021 judgment which had dismissed a petition that said the Election Commission has no power to allot an election symbol.

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Ankita Bhandari Murder: Forensic Team Collected Evidence From Resort Before Demolishing Assures DIG

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DIG Renuka Devi says, “Even before the bulldozers started on Vanatara Resort, the forensic team had collected all the evidence present there, after examining the resort closely”

Dehradun: The Uttarakhand Police, which is probing the horrific Ankita Bhandari murder, said on Monday that a forensic team had already collected evidence from accused Pulkit Arya’s Vanatara resort in Rishikesh before illegal constructions at the site were demolished through bulldozer action.

“Even before the bulldozers started on Vanatara Resort, the forensic team had collected all the evidence present there, after examining the resort closely. All the evidence found there during the forensic investigation is safe and analysis of that evidence is underway,” DIG P Renuka Devi, in charge of the SIT probing the Ankita Bhandari murder case, told ANI. Protests in various parts of the state were reported after 19-year-old Ankita Bhandari was murdered. Expelled BJP leader Vinod Arya’s son Pulkit Arya is an accused in the case. The body of 19-year-old Ankita Bhandari was recovered on September 24 from the Chilla canal in Rishikesh.

The incident sparked massive outrage and angry locals had even set the resort afire. Before that, portions of the resort were bulldozed by the local authorities who claimed they were illegally constructed.
The incident of the resort being set ablaze and the earlier bulldozer action had also triggered fears that crucial evidence may have been destroyed.

Earlier, three persons, including Pulkit Arya, were arrested after they confessed to having pushed Ankita into the canal after an altercation.

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The SIT had, on Sunday, also told ANI that Bhandari’s Whatsapp chats were also being probed. DIG PR Devi had said that Ankita’s WhatsApp chats that have surfaced are also being probed.

Anger over the horrific crime poured onto streets in other parts of Uttarakhand as well as locals jammed the bus station in Pauri. Protestors also gheraoed District Magistrate’s office in Pauri.

In the aftermath of the alleged murder, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami instructed the officials to ensure “better law and order” in the state and also to keep a close watch on the anti-social elements who are “disturbing the peaceful environment”.

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