New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted time to the Delhi authorities, Lieutenant Governor, the civic physique and the returning officer to file replies on a plea difficult the choice to carry re-election for six members of the standing committee of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi.
Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav gave two extra weeks to the authorities to file their responses on the 2 petitions filed by BJP councillors in opposition to the re-election. It additionally granted one week time to petitioners and MCD councilors Kamaljeet Sehrawat and Shikha Roy to file rejoinder and listed the matter for additional listening to on April 24.
On February 25, the excessive court docket had stayed re-election for six members of the standing committee which was scheduled for February 27, saying the mayor prima facie acted past her powers in ordering a recent ballot.
Mayor Shelly Oberoi was additionally the returning officer (RO) for the election. The excessive court docket had earlier mentioned the governing norms don’t mirror that the mayor has the authority to declare the sooner election null and void and conduct the re-election with out saying the outcomes of the earlier ballot held on February 24.
It had mentioned prima facie the mayor’s motion was in violation of the relevant rules. The counsel for the mayor had informed the court docket that she had no different different however to declare the sooner ballot as null and void as the method was vitiated as a result of unruly behaviour of the members. The lawyer had additionally alleged the mayor didn’t get sufficient cooperation from the member secretary and technical specialists.
The mayor had on February 24 introduced recent polling for electing six members of the MCD standing committee on February 27 at 11 am amid clashes between the councillors of the BJP and the AAP within the municipal House. BJP councillors staged protests and created ruckus within the House after Oberoi declared a vote forged throughout the election on Friday invalid.
Oberoi had barely began saying the outcomes when the ruckus started throughout which a councillor even ripped off the mayor’s microphone. The petitioners have contended within the excessive court docket that the mayor ordered a recent election with out declaring the results of the ballot held on February 24 in violation of regulation 51 of Delhi Municipal Corporation (Procedure & Conduct of Business) Regulations, which accommodates the prescribed process.
Roy’s petition, filed by advocate Neeraj, mentioned the ballot was performed in a peaceable method and there was no event for the mayor to recall the elections. The excessive court docket had issued a discover to the RO, the Delhi authorities, Delhi Lieutenant Governor and MCD on the 2 pleas whereas observing that prima facie the choice to carry a re-election within the current case was in violation of the regulation.
The MCD House had witnessed ruckus on February 22 as effectively with members of the BJP and the AAP exchanging blows and hurling plastic bottles at one another. The House was once more rocked by clashes after recent elections have been held on February 24, and mayor Oberoi subsequently alleged that just a few members of the saffron get together made a life-threatening assault on her.
