The Supreme Court on Friday indicated that challenges to the rejection of election nomination papers are ordinarily not entertained at the pre-election stage, observing that candidates whose nominations are rejected by a returning officer generally have recourse to remedies available under the election law framework, PTI reported.
The observations came while a bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Atul S. Chandurkar heard a petition filed by Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan challenging the rejection of her nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh.