New Delhi: Delhi High Court on Thursday rejected a petition submitted by the Lok Insaaf Party, an unknown country party in Punjab, looking for the dismissal of the command of the election commission allocated for the polling symbol ‘mailbox’, not the first preference, farmers driving Tractor ‘.
The court ruled that the applicant had misled the court by sending an old list of ‘free symbols’ instead of an updated and valid list that did not have a ‘tractor riding farmers’ among the ‘free symbols’ available High Courts also imposed exemplary.
The cost of the applicant to “approach him with no clean hands”.
Prateek Judge observed that the applicant had hid the material facts and tried to mislead the court by not revealing the whole and a real copy of ECI notification on September 23.
The selection of assemblies in Punjab and four other countries is due early next year.
Lok Insaaf Party argues before HC has asked the EC for a different symbol, i.e.
“Tractor Chalata Kisan ‘as the first preference and this symbol should be allocated to it.
ECI has invited applications to order general symbols based on paragraph 10b of the selection symbol (reservation and allotment) of orders, 1968 in connection with the election of upcoming assembly and as far as involving Punjab, And the application was submitted on or afterwards it was submitted on or after September 27.
The Petitioner submitted a copy of its application on September 27.
The free symbol that is notified by ECI can be seen on its website.
The applicant is attached to the writing petition.
The copy of the notification issued by ECI Date September 23 but as far as the part containing an updated ‘free symbol’ list, somehow attached an old list of EC 11 notifications, 2021 (which registered the ‘tractor riding farmers’, instead of being issued later on September 23, 2021 (which did not have ‘Tractor riding farmers’).
Rohini Prasad, be Learn Advice for ECI, appears on the advance notice, proposes that the guilty of the suppression of material facts, as far as the symbol is not a free symbol.
He showed that Table IV EC notifications on September 23 contained a list of free symbols available, which before the start of the application under the ECI notification on June 8, as far as the state of the punjab.
He has submitted a copy of Table IV as included in the September 23 notification, which shows that “Tractor Chalata Kisan” is not a free symbol on that date.
Brijballabh Tiwari, advice for the applicant, filed that a free symbol list on September 23 contained in Table IV is not available on the ECI website.
The court observed on Thursday: “Applicant seems to only submit a part of the notification on 23.09.2021 and removed to submit a free list of symbols in Table IV …
cannot be trusted.
Applicants have eliminated Table IV today, and vice versa placed on table notes IV as at 11.03.2021
Delhi HC rejected the punjab party’s petition on poll symbols allocated by EC; impose the cost of Rs 1 lakh to the Applicant
