The Delhi High Court on Friday reserved its verdict on TTV Dhinakaran and VK Sasikala’s pleas challenging the Election Commission’s (EC) decision to recognise the group led by Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami as the real AIADMK party and allotting it the ‘two leaves’ symbol.
New Delhi:
The bench said it was giving three days to file the written statements as it wants to pronounce the verdict within four weeks in view of the Supreme Court order of Thursday that EC can decide Dhinakaran’s plea for an interim poll symbol, if the high court’s decision does not come within four weeks.
A bench of Justices G S Sistani and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal asked all the sides, including the two leaders and the Palaniswami faction, to file their statements within three days so that it can write the judgment and deliver it within four weeks.
The bench said it was giving three days to file the written statements as it wants to pronounce the verdict within four weeks in view of the Supreme Court order of Thursday that EC can decide Dhinakaran’s plea for an interim poll symbol, if the high court’s decision does not come within four weeks.