New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to restrain the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) from issuing notification for the upcoming 2015 Delhi Assembly polls on the allegation of presence of bogus voters.
"We (the court and the petitioner) are here to solve the issue. I cannot injunct the whole electoral process. Let them (CEO) declare this. This process has to go on," Justice Vibhu Bakhru said.
The court, which turned down the plea for stay of the notification till January 13, however, agreed to issue notice to the CEO's office seeking its reply on the interim application of petitioner Naresh Kumar.
The notification is expected to be issued in a day or two. The court is already hearing a petition filed by Kumar in which he has alleged presence of a large number of bogus voters in various Assembly constituencies of the national capital.
Kumar, who had unsuccessfully contested on a Congress ticket from Mundka in the 2014 Delhi Assembly polls, said that during the course of hearing, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has admitted that there were various mistakes in the Delhi electoral rolls and that they were revising these.
"That even in the revised electoral rolls published on January 5 there are still 10,000 to 20,000 bogus voters in Mundka constituency...
"The presence of such large number of bogus voters will effect the electoral process and those who have manipulated the voter's list by including large number of bogus voters may get undue advantage," senior advocate Rakesh Tiku, appearing for Kumar, said.
Earlier, the court had pulled up the Election Commission here asking what action it has taken on the allegation about the presence of a large number of bogus voters in various Assembly constituencies of the capital.
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