A bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi passed the directive on Monday while dealing with a petition Congress MP Sushmita Dev had filed alleging that the commission was biased. The bench posted the matter for further hearing to May 8, by when the poll panel is expected to submit the records. Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who appeared for Dev, told the court that the panel gave the clean chits despite notes of dissent. Of the six cases in which clean chits have been given to Modi and Shah, there have been dissent notes in five, Singhvi said, but did not specify the cases. Singhvi said the Congress had sought the dissent notes from the commission but “the dissent notes have not been supplied to us”.

Source: The Telegraph May 07, 2019 00:56 UTC