Supreme Court junks MP's plea against EC clean chit to PM Modi and Amit Shah

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to expand Congress MP Sushmita Dev's plea for expediting Election Commission's decision on party's complaints of model code violations against PM Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah to include challenge to EC's clean chit to them.
After the EC dismissed the complaints of MCC violation against Modi and Shah, senior advocate A M Singhvi attempted to draw the court's attention to the disparity in the logic behind the EC decisions saying when the complaint related to PM and Shah the commission gives clean chit, but for similar speeches, the EC has pulled up other political leaders.
But, senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi, appearing for EC, said that Dev was not the complainant against Modi and Shah. Most of the complaints were filed by Congress party or by its leader Randeep Surjewala. Since the EC has decided the complaints and sent the decision to the Congress party or Surjewala, as the case be, Dev's petition has become infructuous, he said.
Disposing off the petition, a bench of CJI Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Deepak Gupta said if the aggrieved party wished, she/he could challenge the clean chit given in each case through separate petition.