MOHALI: The Supreme Court (SC) while upholding the orders of the Punjab and Haryana high court has dismissed the petition filed by two Mohali residents seeking stay on the MC elections and said there is no stay on the same.
The orders were issued here on Friday by the SC division bench of Chief Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde, Justice A S Bopanna and Justice V Ramasubramanian, while hearing the petition filed by petitioners challenging the dismissal orders of the Punjab and Haryana high court.
The petition challenging the delimitation of wards in Mohali was filed by Sukhdev Singh Patwari, Bachan Singh and others.
The HC on December 16, 2020 had, while dismissing the petition, opined, “In such matters, the scope of judicial review is very limited. Judicial review of administrative action is intended to prevent arbitrariness, irrationality, unreasonableness, bias and mala fide. Its purpose is to check whether choice or decision is made “lawfully” and not to check whether choice or decision is “sound”. We find no arbitrariness, irrationality, unreasonableness, bias and mala fide in the action of the respondents. This court will not interfere with the action of the respondents and the letters/final notifications impugned in both the writ petitions. Consequently, we find no merit in both the writ petitions and the same are hereby dismissed with no order as to costs.”