The Madras High Court on Monday, April 22, 2024, dismissed a writ petition filed by BJP’s Virudhunagar IT-wing district president C. Selvakumar, seeking a direction to Election Commission of India (ECI) to disqualify Congress candidate B. Manickam Tagore for having allegedly violated the model code of conduct.
The First Division Bench of Chief Justice Sanjay V. Gangapurwala and Justice J. Sathya Narayana Prasad observed that the petition appeared to have been filed only for publicity purposes, though the ECI as well as the local police were already seized of the matter on the basis of complaints lodged by the writ petitioner.
The Chief Justice said, the ECI as well as the police would naturally take the required action and that the petitioner could not treat the High Court as a “post office” where a petition could be filed seeking all kinds of directions when the authorities concerned were bound to take action on the complaints before them.
