The Supreme Court issued notices to the Election Commission and Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on petitions filed by Opposition leaders challenging the large-scale deletions during the special intensive revision of the electoral rolls. The Union government and the Delhi Police were also issued notices on a separate petition challenging the de-notification of Jantar Mantar as a designated protest site.
The bench clubbed the Opposition’s pleas with petitions already pending before the court challenging the validity of the voter roll revision.
In the case of Jantar Mantar, the police had earlier this week told the Delhi High Court that the decision to de-notify the site was made following a Supreme Court order, which prompted the authorities to consider better-equipped alternative venues. Read on.
The Supreme Court granted interim protection to a woman journalist whom Delhi Assistant Commissioner of Police Vivek Bhagat had accused of making casteist remarks about him. Bhagat had accused her days after she alleged that he groped her while she was reporting from protests against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
Advocate Indira Jaisingh told the court that Bhagat had filed his caste discrimination case vindictively against the journalist.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the government said that in the digital era, “we do not know who is a reel-maker…
Source: Scroll.in
