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The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed application seeking a stay on the new procedure for appointing new election commissioners while asking the Centre to file a response within six weeks on the petitions that challenged constitutional validity of the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners Act, 2023...
Petitioners had challenged the validity and sought a stay on the operation of Section 7 of the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners Act, 2023 which excludes the Chief Justice of India from the panel that picks the Chief Election Commissioners and Election Commissioners...
The SC said its March 2023 verdict nowhere says that there has to be a member from judiciary in selection panel for EC appointment...
"We are not questioning the credentials of the Election Commissioners selected, but on the procedure in which the selection was made," SC said.. Petitions were filed after two vacancies emerged in the Election Commission after the retirement of Anup Chandra Pandey on February 14 and abrupt resignation of Arun Goel...
The petitions in particular challenged Sections 7 and 8 of the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Act, 2023..
