The Madras High Court on Monday, October 16, 2023 adjourned to November 3, the hearing on a writ of quo warranto filed against the election of the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) Edappadi K. Palaniswami from the Edappadi Assembly constituency in 2021, on account of various alleged corrupt practices such as disclosing his profession only as an agriculturist and not as former Chief Minister, a position for which he was drawing a salary.
Chief Justice S.V. Gangapurwala and D. Bharatha Chakravarthy granted three weeks’ time for Senior Counsel E. Omprakash, representing the writ petitioner A. Subburathinam, a former AIADMK MLA, to submit Supreme Court judgements, if any, which permit the filing of a writ of quo warranto, instead of an election petition, on the ground of submission of wrong information by a candidate in the election affidavits.
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