The Madras High Court has asked the Election Commission of India (ECI), the Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer, the T.N. government and the Madurai district administration to spare the Government Madurai Medical College from being used as a vote counting centre during future elections.
Chief Justice Sanjay V. Gangapurwala and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy agreed with six student leaders, who had approached the court, stating that the use of the college building as a vote counting centre for more than a month would cause inconvenience to the students and staff.
However, since it was too late in the day to direct the ECI to find another vote counting centre for the Madurai parliamentary constituency during this year’s general elections, the judges said, they expected the centre to be shifted out of the medical college during future elections.
