Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh High Court has pulled up the State Election Commission for failing to keep track of the progress of a contempt of court petition it filed with the HC against the state government – SEC not enquiring as to whether it had come up for hearing, or why if it has not, for the past several days.
A single judge bench headed by Justice Battu Devanand held a hearing on the contempt of court petition filed by SEC on Monday.
The judge observed that the SEC filed the petition on December 18 and details of the petition were widely covered in the media the next day. Yet, why did the SEC fail in approaching the court to check as to why the petition was not taken up for hearing? Was the filing of the petition aimed only at gaining publicity, the court asked the SEC, and added that it inferred the SEC was mounting pressure on the respondents.
The judge asked SEC’s counsel to inform the SEC that it should not give others information pertaining to the…