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'No writs after polls begin': Supreme Court rejects Meenakshi Natarajan's plea
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After an hour-long proceeding, during which senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi for the BJP candidate whose election was facilitated by Natarajan’s disqualification and solicitor general Tushar Mehta for MP govt cited a judgment where SC had refused to entertain a similar plea against rejection of nomination papers, the bench said the SC or HC cannot entertain writ petitions in exercise of their jurisdictions under Articles 32 or 226 of the Constitution. Once the election process commences with the notification of polls.
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