Summary:
The bench then asked him how a constitutional authority like the SEC could support a political party’s petition. Justice Somadder first asked him whether the SEC was supporting the Trinamool petition, to which Shandilya replied “yes”. The matter on Monday stood exactly where it was last Thursday, when Justice Talukdar stayed the poll process and asked the SEC to submit a comprehensive report on how it had followed last Monday’s SC directive. It also observed that the trial court had initially passed the interim stay on the nomination-filing process till April 24, but had later brought it forward to April 16. “I will begin my argument on Tuesday, challenging the maintainability of the writ petition,” he said.Justice Talukdar had dealt with Banerjee’s objection in his Thursday’s interim order..