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The High Court of Karnataka connected Monday directed the State authorities to record its effect to a PIL petition filed by State Election Commission (SEC), which has complained that the government’s nonaccomplishment to hole category-wise preservation for the seats successful the 187 municipality section bodies (ULBs) is posing difficulties to behaviour timely elections to these bodies.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice C.M. Poonacha adjourned further proceeding connected the petition portion tagging it beryllium to heard on with different PIL petition filed by the SEC complaining astir not fixing preservation for 5,950 seats, successful December.
The SEC has pointed retired successful its petition that it has been written galore letters to the authorities for issuing last notification reserving seats for assorted castes successful the 187 ULBs (47 metropolis municipal councils, 91 municipality municipal councils and municipality panchayats) arsenic word of these bodies are expiring betwixt October-December. It arsenic been stated successful the petition that SEC is incapable to statesman process of elections unless the preservation is fixed for these ULBs by the State authorities arsenic per the provisions of the Karnataka State Municipalities Act, 1964.
