ECI Appointments Case: Justice Datta Asks Petitioner to Mention Recall Plea Before CJI
· India · The Hindu, Hindustan Times
A petitioner challenging the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners Act, 2023, has moved a curative application in the Supreme Court regarding a split verdict delivered on September 23, 2026. The application questions why Justice Satish Chandra Sharma did not reveal during court proceedings that his son was a standing counsel for the Election Commission of India. The matter was mentioned on Thursday before Justice Dipankar Datta, who led the bench that issued the split verdict. Justice Datta directed the petitioner, Naman Shestra, to mention the plea before the Chief Justice of India. The petitioner is seeking to recall Justice Sharma's opinion in favour of referring the law's constitutional validity challenge to a five-judge bench, while Justice Datta had declined the reference.
Why it matters
The application raises questions of judicial transparency in a high-profile case involving the appointment process of top election officials, potentially impacting how the constitutional validity challenge to the ECI Act is heard by a larger bench.
Read the original report — The Hindu
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