Lucknow Apr 26: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court today turned down the plea of Election Commission to shift the independent MLA Rahguraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya from Pratapgarh jail to some other jail out of Uttar Pradesh. A division bench comprising Justice Vishnu Sahai and Justice G K Gupta passed this order while rejecting the transfer application observed that since the election in Pratapgarh is over, the application has became infructous.

The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court fixed April 30 next for hearing a PIL, seeking direction not to deploy working woman on night election duty in ongoing parliamentary election and directed the state counsel to seek instructions.

Bureau Report