The Supreme Court rebuked Anil Masih, the Chandigarh Mayor election’s Presiding Officer, accusing him of defacing ballot papers. Chief Justice DY Chandrachud’s bench heard AAP councillor Kuldeep Kumar’s plea against a Punjab and Haryana High Court ruling. The AAP sought fresh elections supervised by a retired judge but was denied interim relief.
During the hearing, CJI Chandrachud condemned Masih’s actions, stating he should face prosecution. He criticized Masih’s conduct as a mockery of democracy and called it “murdering democracy.” Chandrachud observed Masih’s selective tampering with ballot papers and warned him that the Supreme Court was monitoring the situation closely.
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In the recent Chandigarh mayoral polls, BJP’s Manoj Sonkar defeated AAP’s Kuldeep Kumar with 16 votes to 12, while eight were invalidated. Opposition councillors accused the presiding officer of ballot tampering, a claim dismissed by the BJP.
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