Supreme Court reprimand the Uttarakhand Election Commission on names in dual voters lists

The Supreme Court has come down heavily on the Uttarakhand election commision and strongly reprimanded it.

This has degraded the reputation of the Uttarakhand Election Commision everywhere.

After the reprimand the credibility of UCC has come under question.

The matter was related to the Panchayat elections when during the conduction of elections a question was raised about dual membership of several Candidates especially those from the ruling political dispensation.

Then the Uttarakhand Election Commission has given its green signal to dual voting rights in different places and different elections.

The election commission has then issued a circular saying that those persons or candidates having their names in two different voter lists shouldn’t be cancelled and should be allowed to vote or contest.

There was lot of hue and cry on this issue then. Then the matter went to the Uttarakhand High Court and the judge concerned had clearly said that this is absolutely wrong and unconstitutional,hence those who have such names in two different voters list should not be allowed to contest or vote.

The High Court had then catagorically ruled that this is unambiguously against the norms of the Punchayati Act.

But the Uttarakhand Election Commission was adamant and didn’t budge. Instead it went to the supreme Court with the optimism that it will turn down the Uttarakhand High Court order.

But instead the Learned supreme Court judges vindicated the Uttarakhand High Court judgement and imposed a penalty of Rs two lakhs on Uttarakhand Election Commission reprimanding it strongly thus degrading its image at the pan India level directing it to immediately scan the entire voters list and those having names at two places in two different voters lists their names should be deleted forthwith. This will now definitely adversely impact those who have won elections in Punchayati election recently.