Supreme Court adjourns MCC violation case against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned to Wednesday the hearing on an alleged violation of the model code of conduct by Prime Minister Modi and BJP President Amit Shah on senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi said the Election Commission violated its directive to clear all violations by the duo and so he wanted to file some more documents.
He pointed out that his client petitioner Sushmita Dev, MP from Silchair, has listed 11 alleged violations of the two in her petition on the Election Commission not taking action against them as done in case with other violators as if they enjoyed some special privilege.
Asking him to bring on record four EC orders giving clean chit to the duo on his claim that they were “unreasonable”, a Bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Deepak Gupta gave time till Monday evening to the Election Commission to decide the rest of the cases against the duo by the evening.
Singvi also referred to reports of dissent within the election body on poll code violations and urged the top court to lay down guidelines to decide on similar complaints in future.