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Apex court to hear plea on Uttar Pradesh
poll quota
Tuesday June 05, 2012 08:30:52 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Supreme
Court will take up for hearing Thursday a petition challenging the
Uttar Pradesh government's notification on reservations in 38
local agencies where elections are scheduled to be held in the
coming weeks.
The apex court's vacation bench of Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan and
Justice J.S. Khehar directed the matter be listed Thursday when
counsel D.K. Garg mentioned it before the court Tuesday.
The petition sought a stay on the government's May 23 notification
identifying the municipal agencies whose chairpersons would be
subject to reservation for the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled
Tribes, the Other Backward Classes and women.
The four-phase election process for these agencies would conclude
July 8.
The petition also sought a stay on the state election commission's
May 25 notification on the poll schedule of the civic agencies.
Petitioner Rakesh Gautam, a resident of Aligarh, challenged the
Allahabad High Court judgment of June 1 by which it dismissed his
plea against the government's notification as non-maintainable,
saying the election commission had already set in motion the poll
process.
While dismissing the petition, the high court said: "However, we
leave it open to the state government and the state election
commission to consider the desirability of taking appropriate
action so that the polling to various local bodies, as already
scheduled, is not affected."
The high court said that the petitioner had a remedy under the
Uttar Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act and could move a plea be
moved before the district judge.
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