State Election Commission vs. Chief Secretary, State Of Karnataka

ITEM NO.602+603 COURT NO.1 SECTION IVA S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS Petitions for Special Leave to Appeal (C) Nos. 13539-13542/2015 (Arising out of impugned final judgment and order dated 24/04/2015 in WA No. 1234/2015,24/04/2015 in WA No. 1235/2015,24/04/2015 in WA No. 1236/2015,24/04/2015 in WA No. 1225/2015 passed by the High Court Of Karnataka At Bangalore) STATE ELECTION COMMISSION Petitioner(s) VERSUS CHIEF SECRETARY, STATE OF KARNATAKA AND ORS. Respondent(s) (With prayer for interim relief) With SLP(C) Nos.13367-13368/2015 (With prayer for interim relief) SLP(C) Nos.13469-13470/2015 (With prayer for interim relief) SLP(C) ..CC No.8090/2015 (With prayer for interim relief) Date: 30/04/2015 These petitions were called on for hearing today. CORAM : HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S.A. BOBDE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ARUN MISHRA For Petitioner(s) Mr. Dushyant Dave, Adv. Mr. Sajjan Poovayya, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sumit Atry, Adv. Mr. Abhinav Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Priyadarshi Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Sujoy Chatterjee, Adv. Mr. E.C. Agrawala, Adv. Signature Not Verified Digitally signed by Mr. V. Laxminarayana, Sr. Adv. NEETU KHAJURIA Date: 2015.04.30 18:39:24 IST Mr. Nishanth Patil, Adv. Reason: Mr. Shivram, Adv. Mr. Ujjal Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Anup Jain, Adv. 2 Mr. Amit Chadha, Sr. Adv. Mr. Balaji Srinivasan, Adv. Mr. A. Shivarama, Adv. Ms. Vaishnavi, Subrahmanyam, Adv. Mr. Mayank Kshirsagar, Adv. Ms. Srishti Govil, Adv. Ms. Vaishali Dixit, Adv. Mr. A. V. Nishanth, Adv.

Mr. K.N. Phanindra, Adv. Mr. Jayant Mohan,Adv. Mr. Ninad Laud, Adv. For Respondent(s) Mr. Kapil Sibal, Sr. Adv. Mr. A.S. Ponnanna, AAG Mr. Brijesh Kalappa, Adv. Mr. V. N. Raghupathy,Adv. Mr. Parikshit Angadi, Adv. Mr. Salim Inamdar, Adv. UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R Taken on Board. Permission to file special leave petition(s) is granted. Issue notice. Mr. A.S. Ponnanna, learned counsel, accepts notice on behalf of State of Karnataka. List these petitions on 5th May, 2015. In the meantime, counter/reply, if any, may be filed. (Neetu Khajuria) (Charanjeet Kaur)

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