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A lawyer has moved a contempt petition in the Supreme Court against chief election commissioner Sunil Arora and some prominent politicians for not fully adhering to an apex court order by allowing “dreaded criminals” contest in the Bihar Assembly polls.
Advocate Brajesh Singh, who is a petitioner-in-person said the court had ordered parties to publish on their websites the reasons for selecting such candidates and why other individuals without a criminal record were not found better suited to contest the elections. The parties published the details of their candidates in only one Hindi newspaper, giving reasons for their choice of candidates such as “popularity of the person, social work, educational background, that cases were filed against them out of political vendetta by rival political parties, having shown a good effort in handling the COVID-19 crisis”.