Vote counting of coimbatore constituency will not be stopped : Madras HC
The Madras high court on Tuesday dismissed a plea seeking a special polling in Coimbatore parliamentary constituency for the voters whose names were missing from the list in the Lok Sabha elections concluded on April 19.
The bench comprising of chief justices Sanjay V Gangapurwala and justice G Chandrasekharan ruled that the court cannot pass such orders after the polling has already concluded, while observing that the petitioner R R Suthanthira Kannan, a Coimbatore native who is working as a doctor in Australia, had failed to check the draft and final voters’ list published by the Election Commission of India (ECI).
The petitioner Kannan, who travelled to Coimbatore to vote in the April 19 Lok Sabha elections from Australia, couldn’t find his name in the electoral rolls. Last week, he moved the high court, seeking a direction to the ECI to conduct a special polling for people like him whose names have been omitted from the voters’ list.
The counsel for the EC submitted to the court that the final list was published in January. “The provisional list was published even before that. The petitioner did not raise any objection to the provisional or final list. In light of the submission and the facts of the case, no orders can be passed now,” the court said.