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West Bengal: Case filed against two observers

| @indiablooms | Apr 26, 2019, at 03:36 pm

Kolkata, Apr 26 (UNI) An independent candidate of the parliamentary polls has filed a petition before Calcutta High Court seeking cancellation of the Election Commission’s appointments of Ajay V Nayak and Vivek Dube as a special observer.

The writ petition is likely to come up for hearing early next week.


According to the petition, Section 20B of Representation of People Act, 1951, provides that EC should nominate an observer who shall be an of officer of the government.


“Hence, retired IPS and IAS officers do not fulfill the requirement as laid down in Section B of the RP Act, 1951,” the petitioner, Ramu Mandi, an independent candidate contesting from Barrackpore parliamentary constituency said.


“ The two observers have no fear of sanctions against their service records since they have already retired and they may not act fairly and in the interests of the people,” he said.


One of the observers retired in 2015 and other in 2018, he said. 

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