The submission was made today before Justice Sunil Dutt Yadav by Siddaramaiah’s counsel, Senior Advocate Ravivarma Kumar.
Kumar has alleged that there were at least three identically worded election petitions before various benches of the High Court.
“The most disturbing aspect of this case is recently, a coordinate bench of this Court in B Lakshmidevi’s case, an election petition was rejected for want of cause of action in an identical situation. To our shock, we found that my election petition is the same as the election petition against this one…Cut and paste, paragraph by paragraph! So it is easy for me to apply this as binding precedent. But I am appealing to the Court to take judicial notice of this fact that there has been mass copying of election petitions…At least three I have identified. The first was before Kalburgi Bench. Same averments, not a comma or full stop changed in petition,” Kumar submitted.
Source: Barandbench
