{"id":49554,"date":"2017-08-25T08:14:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T02:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=49554"},"modified":"2017-08-25T08:14:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T02:44:24","slug":"tn-chief-electoral-officer-appears-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/tn-chief-electoral-officer-appears-court","title":{"rendered":"TN chief electoral officer appears in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_48687\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48687\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/SC-collegium.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"48687\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/hc-junks-plea-sc-collegium-recommendations\/sc-collegium-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/SC-collegium.jpg?fit=260%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"260,194\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SC collegium\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/SC-collegium.jpg?fit=260%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-48687 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/SC-collegium.jpg?resize=260%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"TN chief electoral officer appears in court\" width=\"260\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/SC-collegium.jpg?w=260&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/SC-collegium.jpg?resize=134%2C100&amp;ssl=1 134w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TN chief electoral officer appears in court<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer Rajesh Lakhani today appeared before the Madras High Court to give evidence in a petition filed by R Saravanan of the DMK, challenging the election of the AIADMK&#8217;s A K Bose in the Thirupparankundram Assembly bypoll in November, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Lakhani appeared before Justice P Velmurugan and gave his evidence in the petition, in which the validity of the left thumb impression (LTI) attestation of late AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa has also been questioned.<\/p>\n<p>Advocate Arunkumar, appearing on behalf of the petitioner, put several questions to Lakhani.<\/p>\n<p>The matter relates to the Thirupparankundram bypoll, in which Bose defeated Saravanan when Jayalalithaa was admitted to the Apollo Hospital here as she was seriously ill.<\/p>\n<p>In his petition, Saravanan had raised a doubt about the LTI of the former chief minister in forms &#8216;A&#8217; and &#8216;B&#8217; of Bose when she was in an unconscious state in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The judge fixed September 1 as the next date in the matter, when the witnesses will be cross-examined.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer Rajesh Lakhani today appeared before the Madras High Court to give evidence in a petition filed by R Saravanan of the DMK, challenging the election of the AIADMK&#8217;s A K Bose in the Thirupparankundram Assembly bypoll in November, 2016. 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