HC conferred 'awesome' power on EC: Centre

NEW DELHI, APRIL 23. The Centre today criticised the Kerala High Court judgment empowering the Election Commission to initiate deregistration proceedings against political parties which called for `bandh' affecting normal life.

The Attorney General, Mr. Soli J. Sorabjee, submitted before a three-judge Bench headed by the Chief Justice, Mr. A. S. Anand, that ``the High Court by judicial interpretation has conferred an awesome power on the Election Commission for deregistration of parties which Parliament has refrained from doing''. The Kerala High Court's order was challenged in the apex court by the Congress, Communist Party of India and the court today granted leave for Special Leave Petitions.

The Bench directed the parties to file their submissions within eight weeks and posted the matter for further directions in the third week of July.

- PTI

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