Maha civic polls result after Dec 20 voting: SC upholds HC order

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court connected Friday approved the determination of the Nagpur seat of Bombay precocious tribunal directing Maharashtra State Election Commission to state results of each civic assemblage elections connected completion of adjacent circular of voting connected Dec 20, and clarified that announcement of the results would not beryllium postponed further owed to pendency of pleas successful HC.All municipal councils and nagar panchayats successful the authorities were scheduled to spell to polls connected Dec 2. However, voting took spot successful 264 of them connected Dec 2, with the authorities EC postponing elections successful 24 seats wherever appeals are pending implicit acceptance and rejection of information papers.Appearing for petitioners, elder advocator A M Singhvi said that with the appeals pending, determination is an apprehension that declaration of results whitethorn get pushed further arsenic the adjudication of the pleas would beryllium a time-consuming matter requiring a effect from respondents and proceeding by HC.A seat of CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi said determination is thing caller successful predetermination results being declared aft the past signifier of polling to forestall voters successful constituencies which spell to polls aboriginal from getting influenced by the temper of voters successful constituencies wherever elections were held earlier.The seat directed the authorities EC to state the results of each civic bodies aft completion of elections successful the 2nd phase, and clarified that “pendency of the petitions successful HC would not beryllium an impediment for declaration of the results.”