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The Telangana High Court connected Thursday (December 04) declined to interfere successful a batch of writ petitions seeking re-determination of reservations successful immoderate gram panchayats of the State during the ongoing elections for agrarian section bodies.
A seat of Justices P. Sam Koshy and Suddala Chalapathi Rao observed that the courts cannot interfere with the process of elections erstwhile the notification is issued, arsenic per Article 243-O of the Constitution. The seat was proceeding the pleas seeking directions to the authorities to stall the process of elections wherever reservations for the posts of sarpanches and ward members were made to circumstantial communities, but an capable fig of radical from those communities were not disposable to contention the polls.
The petitioners wanted to cancel the elections successful specified gram panchayats and re-allot the reservations based connected the existent colonisation successful those villages. The State Election Commission informed the seat that erstwhile the process of the ongoing panchayat elections is completed, elections tin beryllium held to the posts of sarpanches and ward members successful specified panchayats wherever nary candidates were disposable from the communities for which the posts were reserved.
The SEC besides said that already filing of nominations for the archetypal 2 phases was implicit and the process for the 3rd signifier was on. At this stage, elections cannot beryllium stalled, the SEC counsel said. The counsels for the petitioners contended that they did not question cancellation of the full elections but requested re-determination of reservations wherever candidates from the communities for whom the reservations were made were not disposable to contention the polls.
The bench, however, dismissed different petition successful which 29 IAS officers were made respondents, stating that reservations for Backward Classes were reduced from the earlier 24% to the contiguous 17% arsenic against the much than 40% of BC colonisation successful the State. The seat took a superior objection to including 29 IAS officers arsenic respondents successful the plea and dismissed it.
