free and fair elections

Supreme Court to examine immunity for CEC & ECs after PIL flags ‘law unto itself’ risk | India News

NGO’s S N Shukla said Supreme Court, in the M S Gill case, had ruled that it should not make Election Commission a law unto itself NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has agreed to test the constitutional validity of a law giving lifelong immunity to the Chief Election Commissioner and election commissioners from civil and criminal […]

Supreme Court junks plea for probe into ‘vote chori’ charge, says approach EC | India News

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a PIL seeking a court-monitored probe by a special investigation team (SIT) into allegations of irregularities and manipulations in electoral rolls levelled by Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and asked the petitioner to approach EC for redressal of grievance.The petitioner’s counsel, senior advocate Shashi Kiran, told a […]

Khaleda: March of democracy facing hurdle in Bangladesh

Representative image (Picture credit: AP) DHAKA: Former PM Khaleda Zia on Thursday said the uninterrupted march of democracy in Bangladesh is being obstructed gradually, a day after her party BNP held a massive rally to protest the “delay” in holding national polls by the interim government headed by Muhammad Yunus.During a virtual address, Zia said, […]