The Madras High Court, at a special sitting on Wednesday, dismissed two writ petitions filed against the President’s decision to rescind the poll notification for the Vellore parliamentary constituency in the wake of complaints of large-scale distribution of cash to voters.
Justices S. Manikumar and Subramonium Prasad rejected identical writ petitions filed by AIADMK candidate A.C. Shanmugam (of the New Justice Party) and independent candidate K. Sugumar, who sought a direction to the Election Commission (EC) to conduct polls for the Vellore constituency along with 38 others in the State on Thursday.