Can´t change polling dates, booths: Madras HC
(WorldNews India)

CHENNAI: The Madras HC on Friday dismissed three PILs that demanded change of polling dates in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry or shifting of more than 2,000 polling booths located on Church premises over religious events such as Chithirai festival in Madurai and Maundy Thursday to be observed by Christians on April 18. Relying on a catena of Supreme Court judgments, a division bench of Justice S Manikumar and Justice Subramonium Prasad said that it is well settled that the writ court should not ordinarily, except in rarest of rare cases, interfere with the schedule fixed by the EC while exercising its jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution. Duty of every citizen to cooperate in...