Supreme Court junks plea for probe into 'vote chori' charge, says approach EC

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court connected Monday refused to entertain a PIL seeking a court-monitored probe by a peculiar probe squad (SIT) into allegations of irregularities and manipulations successful electoral rolls levelled by Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and asked the petitioner to attack EC for redressal of grievance.The petitioner's counsel, elder advocator Shashi Kiran, told a seat of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi that it is not imaginable to clasp escaped and just elections, which prolong the instauration of democracy, if the electoral rolls are manipulated. Aware of the governmental slugfest implicit Rahul's allegations, SC refrained from commenting connected the merits of the contented and asked the petitioner to attack EC. "We are not inclined to entertain this writ petition purportedly filed successful nationalist interest.

The petitioner, if truthful advised, whitethorn prosecute the practice made earlier EC," the seat said.Petitioner Rohit Pandey, a practicing advocator successful SC, had sought a absorption to EC - which has notified that it would soon beryllium conducting a nationwide SIR of electoral rolls - to halt further revision of voters' lists till the allegations made by Rahul person been addressed and discrepancies cured. While seeking transparency, accountability and integrity successful the process of voters' database revision, the petitioner borrowed importantly from Rahul's allegations and had sought an SIT probe into irregularities pointed retired by him successful Karnataka and Maharashtra.