SC Declines to Interfere with Chhattisgarh HC Order on Election Plea against Ex-CM Bhupesh Baghel
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to interfere with a Chhattisgarh High Court order declining to dismiss, at the preliminary stage, an election petition challenging former Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel’s 2023 election from the Patan Assembly constituency.
A bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, along with Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana, disposed of Baghel’s plea while granting him liberty to raise all his objections before the High Court’s election tribunal during the trial. The apex court upheld the High Court’s interim order rejecting Baghel’s application seeking dismissal of the election petition on grounds of lack of cause of action and alleged non-compliance with statutory requirements.
