The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court on March 26 overturned the Election Commission’s notification for conducting a bypoll in the Akola West Assembly constituency in Maharashtra on April 26.
A division bench of Justices Anil Killor and MS Jawalkar ruled that there would be no by-election in the Assembly segment, which became vacant following the passing of its sitting MLA Govardahan Sharma in November last year, as the new member would have less than one year to represent the constituency. The State is scheduled to go for Assembly elections in September-October.
The verdict was delivered following a petition filed by Akola resident Anil Dubey, praying to set aside the EC notification issued earlier this month for conducting bypoll. Mr. Dubey argued that the remaining tenure of the newly elected legislator will be less than one year.
