After notifying the Delhi High Court that it has decided to suspend its decision to postpone the elections, the Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) election commission will proceed with the scheduled elections.
The election commission announced that the decision will be put on hold for a week. The nomination procedure will, however, begin on Tuesday rather than Monday as originally planned because the nomination forms have not yet been printed.
Before one-judge Justice Sanjeev Narula, the DHCBA election commission submitted the proposal. Two petitions challenging the commission’s decision to postpone the bar association elections indefinitely due to the lack of EVMs were being heard by the court, one by the Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) and the other by attorney Sukrit Gupta.
After notifying the Delhi High Court that it has decided to suspend its decision to postpone the elections, the Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) election commission will proceed with the scheduled elections.
The election commission announced that the decision will be put on hold for a week. The nomination procedure will, however, begin on Tuesday rather than Monday as originally planned because the nomination forms have not yet been printed.
Before one-judge Justice Sanjeev Narula, the DHCBA election commission submitted the proposal. Two petitions challenging the commission’s decision to postpone the bar association elections indefinitely due to the lack of EVMs were being heard by the court, one by the Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) and the other by attorney Sukrit Gupta.
Elections for the DHCBA were permanently postponed after Delhi University (DU), which was supposed to supply the electronic voting machines, demanded payment of 1.1 crore. The DU demanded the money, claiming that the Patiala House Court had ordered the preservation of the voting devices it had provided for the 2019 elections due to claims of electoral fraud.
But according to DHCBA, the University’s arbitrary allegations cannot be permitted to invalidate the election because the court has ordered that the EVMs be retained.
