It also asked the Election Commission counsel Nirajan Rajagopalan to file the poll panel's counter-affidavit to the probe status report. The Madras High Court today asked a top police officer to monitor the ongoing probe into the case of electoral malpractices in run up to the April 12 bypoll in RK Nagar assembly constituency, leading to its cancellation. A bench of justices M Sathyanarayanan and N Seshasayee directed the city's joint police commissioner (East) to file a status report on the probe by August 23, the next date of hearing of the matter. It also asked the Election Commission counsel Nirajan Rajagopalan to file the poll panel's counter-affidavit to the probe status report. It had said none of the names were there in the FIR with the column for the names of accused left blank.

Source: dna July 14, 2017 11:48 UTC