JOIN USLast minute efforts were made to get a stay from the High Court on the elections for the posts of Bengaluru Mayor and Deputy Mayor by advocate K A Harikrishna and others in two separate PILs on Friday.
The petitioners had moved an interlocutory application seeking stay on the elections. However senior counsel Vivek Reddy was not present before the court when the matter came up for hearing. When the matter was moved again in the afternoon, a division bench comprising acting Chief Justice S K Mukherjee and Justice B V Nagarathna questioned the senior counsel's absence.
During the hearing, the government counsel submitted that B N Manjunath Reddy has already been elected as the Mayor and that election process has been completed. The bench observed that the IA has become infructuous.
Advocate General Ravivarma Kumar submitted to the court the single bench on September 9 has passed an interim order to hold the mayor elections. The petitioners have challenged the voting rights of MPs, MLAs and MLCs in the mayoral elections. As the petitioners had mentioned wrong address to implead the Union government in the application to implead as additional respondents, the bench granted time and adjourned the next hearing to October 5.