The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to hear Congress MP Sushmita Dev's plea seeking action against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP chief Amit Shah for alleged poll code violations and asked her to file a fresh petition. The court allowed the petitioner liberty to file a fresh petition challenging the orders passed by EC on their complaints. "Rightly or wrongly", the poll panel has decided the complaints of MCC violations and these orders warrant filing of a fresh petition, the bench said. Senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi, appearing for the EC, said the persons who had given representations of MCC violations to the poll panel have not come forward to assail them. Senior advocate AM Singhvi, appearing for Dev, said the poll panel had given unreasoned orders in dismissing the complaints against Modi and Shah.

Source: dna May 08, 2019 06:45 UTC