On Monday, the Apex Court sought responses from the Centre and the Election Commission on a Public Interest Litigation challenging the validity of a provision of the Representation of People Act which bars a prisoner from voting. A bench comprising CJI UU Lalit and Justice S Ravindra Bhat and Justice Bela M Trivedi took note of the submissions of lawyer Zoheb Hossain and issued notices to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and the poll panel.
The plea was filed in 2019 by Aditya Prasanna Bhattacharya, then a student of the National Law University, challenging the Constitutional validity of section 62(5) of the Representation of People Act which prohibits a jailed person from casting vote in elections.
The bench has fixed the PIL for further hearing on Dec 29.
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