The Madras High Court on Monday ordered recounting of the 605 rejected postal votes that were polled in Krishnagiri Assembly constituency in 2021 in which AIADMK MLA K. Ashok Kumar had won with a slender margin of 794 votes, compared to his nearest rival candidate T. Senguttuvan of DMK.
Justice P.T. Asha allowed an application filed by the defeated candidate, through his counsel Richardson Wilson, this year for recounting of the rejected postal votes and directed the Registrar General of the High Court to depute any one of the Registrars of the High Court to supervise the recounting process.
The Registrar concerned was directed to complete the exercise in 20 days and file a report before the court listing out the reasons that had been recorded by the Returning Officer in Form 20 for rejection of the postal ballot votes and the reasons that had been recorded for such rejection on the postal covers.
