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A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice Brijesh Sethi directed the petitioner, a software professional from Bengaluru, to file an election petition instead and dismissed his plea that had also sought directions to the EC to inquire into all complaints made in respect of false affidavits filed by poll candidates.
“You should have filed an election petition. Why did you not? We will not hear it. Dismissed,” the court said.
The petitioner, Renjith Thomas, had alleged in his plea that Chandrasekhar had not declared his actual assets in the affidavit filed along with his nomination papers.
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Thomas had contended that the EC’s stand amounted to “abdicating its constitutional duty to conduct free-and-fair elections” and “investigate matters of false affidavits” when a prima facie case was made out against Chandrasekhar.