HC issues notice to Chandigarh administration, MC over plea challenging nomination of 9 councillors
The petitioner has alleged that no procedure has been adopted by the respondent while nominating the names of the councillor, and even character verification or police verification has not been done.
The petitioner has alleged that no procedure has been adopted by the respondent, while nominated names of the councillor, even the character verification or police verification have not been done. (FILE) Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court Thursday issued a notice to the Chandigarh Administration and the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh over a petition challenging the nomination of nine councillors.
The petition has been filed by Jaspal Singh, seeking to declare the notification dated October 18, 2022 illegal and unconstitutional. Singh alleged that the notification is against the objects and spirit of sub section 3 of section 4 of the Punjab Municipal Corporation Act in 1976, as extended to the UT-Chandigarh.
The petition has been filed challenging the notification of Geeta Chauhan, Anil Masih, Dr Ramneek Singh Bedi, Amit Jindal, Umesh Ghai, Satinder Singh, Dr Naresh Panchal, Dharminder Saini and Mohinder Kaur, who were nominated in October 2018.
The petitioner through counsels, Mandeep K Sajjan, Samandeep and Suman Kumari, has sought directions to the respondents to produce complete record pertaining to the procedure, recommendation and total received applications, order of acceptance or rejection of the applications, qualifications, achievement of the respondents (nominated councillors), in the public.
The petitioner has alleged that no procedure has been adopted by the respondent, while nominating the names of the councillor, even the character verification or police verification have not been done, thus the action of the respondent is liable to be quashed.
Among other grounds seeking the quashing of the notification of the respondent authorities, it has been stated by petitioner that no reservation policy has been adopted while nominating the names of the councillors, which is also in violation of provisions of the Constitution.
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