{"id":17150,"date":"2012-02-17T12:08:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T06:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=17150"},"modified":"2012-02-17T12:08:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T06:38:22","slug":"court-reserves-order-on-mcd-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-reserves-order-on-mcd-polls","title":{"rendered":"Court reserves order on MCD polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/court-reserves-order-on-mcd-polls\/hh-3\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17151\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17151\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-reserves-order-on-mcd-polls\/hh-3\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/hh2.jpg?fit=268%2C188&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"268,188\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"hh2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/hh2.jpg?fit=150%2C105&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/hh2.jpg?fit=268%2C188&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17151\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/hh2.jpg?resize=268%2C188&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/hh2.jpg?w=268&amp;ssl=1 268w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/hh2.jpg?resize=150%2C105&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/a>The Delhi High Court Thursday reserved its order on petitions by a group of councillors seeking quashing of the state election commission&#8217;s decision to reserve seats for candidates of the Scheduled Castes in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections to be held in April.<\/p>\n<p>The councillors of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress moved the court challenging the earmarking of seats as reserved for the Scheduled Castes (SCs).<\/p>\n<p>The division bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Rajiv Shakdher reserved the verdict after counsel from both the sides concluded their arguments.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioners contended that the poll commission&#8217;s notification reserving the seats as &#8220;arbitrary, malafide and without any logic&#8221; as the commission had reserved seats for the SCs on the basis of the 2001 census and not the recent 2011 census.<\/p>\n<p>The election commission &#8220;acted without any logic&#8221; in reserving the seats on the basis of 2001 census &#8211; reserving those seats where the SC population was only 12 percent, and making those as general seats where the SC population was more than 40 percent, they contended.<\/p>\n<p>The election commission opposed the plea saying that the rationale behind the reservation was to give due representation to SC candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The state election commission Jan 27, issued a notification for reserving the seats for SC candidates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court Thursday reserved its order on petitions by a group of councillors seeking quashing of the state election commission&#8217;s decision to reserve seats for candidates of the Scheduled Castes in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections to be held in April. 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