HYDERABAD: A division bench of Telangana High Court comprising Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice B. Vijaysen Reddy on Saturday heard the writ appeal filed by Telangana State Election Commission (SEC) seeking stay on interim orders issued by a single judge of the High Court, who had on Friday suspended the commission’s circular dated December 4, 2020 allowing consideration of “distinguish marks” on ballot papers used in GHMC elections.
The division bench, however, refused to interfere with the single judge order, observing that it is the mistake of SEC in not imparting proper training to its staff who, instead of providing cross arrow markers to voters, allowed a distinguished mark.
“State Election Commission cannot absolve itself from the mistake it committed. Moreover, it commits a mistake and then rushes to the division bench with an appeal, when the single judge has given you ample time till December 7 to file your response,” the CJ…