Plea To Direct ECI To Disclose Form 17C Record Of Votes Polled : Live Updates From Supreme Court Hearing
J Datta: there is no single interim prayer in WP, then why are you saying this is not the final prayer...we are sitting in vacation , do not waste time...read the prayer
J Datta: (referring to Prayer A of application) How can you expect relief which was the final prayer in the WP? How can you? .........we can grant , but only in very rare situations....why did you not come up with this application in March? why on 26th April ? please read out prayer B...we are trying to ascertain whether at all we should grant you relief
Dave: we are sufficiently damned by Your Lordship's judgement on 26th April, we don't need bonafide certificates from ECI
J Datta: prayer A in your application is prayer B in the WP,can that be the interim relief ?
J Datta: prepare yourself for questions
J Datta: today is a suit is filed, then there are subsequent developments, if the court feels that these developments are to be applied then what is the procedure? is it different for WPs
J Datta: what is the nexus between 2019 and 2024 application? why didn't you file a separate WP?
Maninder : this WP is 4 years old, filed in 2019....was it permissible for you (ADR) to file an application on a judgment where you are a party....the trust is to be strengthen in the election process, not to be punctured
Maninder: the ECI, take steps on its own wherever it thinks fit, it came to the conclusion that these applications are merely apprehensions
J Datta: what is the prayer in your application (to ADR)
Maninder: the WP , SC held was not maintainable, the same day when the judgement is delivered in the morning, the application is being churned by the factory again
Maninder : why should this application be entertained? all the canons of law being put aside - resjudicata, delay in filing etc
Maninder submits that the present application is only based on apprehension and suspicion which are misplaced grounds as already decided in the EVM -VVPAT judgement.
Maninder refers to the following judgement of the SC delivered recently :
Maninder: this can reduce citizen participation, because of the continuous challenge to the process
Maninder : so they are discussing with somebody, Iam sure even today in their factory something else will be churning out