Summary:
The UT Chandigarh Chief Electoral Officer AjoyKumar Sinha also, on Monday, rejected Chhatwal’s appeal filed againt rejection of his nomination papers by the Returning Officer. THE PUNJAB and Haryana High Court, Wednesday, declined to interfere with Chandigarh Returning Officer’s decision to reject nomination papers of independent candidate from Chandigarh seat, Paramjit Singh Chhatwal, after it was found that he was not a registered voter. “The perusal of Section 24 of Representation of the Peoples Act, 1950, makes it clear that the appeal against rejection of nomination papers by the Returning Officer cannot be filed under this section. On April 30, the Returning Officer of Chandigarh parliamentary constituency, during the scrutiny process, rejected the nomination papers of Chhatwal after he could not produce certified copy of electoral roll. “You should have woken up earlier… A person contesting elections does not know…,” observed the bench regarding Chhatwal’s missing name in the electoral roll..