Key Points
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Manoj Sonkar resigned from the position of Chandigarh Mayor on Sunday, a day before the scheduled Supreme Court hearing on alleged irregularities in the vote-counting process...
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the plea filed by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which alleged that the BJP tampered with the postal ballots during the January 30 Chandigarh mayoral poll...
The opposition councillors from AAP and the Congress alleged that the Presiding Officer had tampered with the ballot papers, a charge rubbished by the BJP...
Appalled by the alleged defacing of ballot papers, the Supreme Court lashed out at the Presiding Officer and said it amounted to a mockery of democracy..
A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, Justice J B Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra expressed annoyance after watching the video of the electoral proceedings and said that, prima facie, the returning officer was defacing the ballot papers...
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