[COVID] If religious places are kept open, can’t they come to polling booths? Karnataka High asks State to justify deferring local body elections
The Court had, in 2020, registered a case suo motu after noticing that local body elections were not being held as per the mandate of Clause (3) of Article 243 (U).
The Karnataka High Court recently directed the State government to give reasons justifying its stand to postpone the local body elections till December 2021.