NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today granted a last opportunity to the Centre to file its response to a PIL seeking to restrict a candidate from contesting from more than one constituency in a general election.
The Election Commission of India (ECI), in its affidavit in December last year, had quoted its 2004 proposals on electoral reforms and said that the law should be amended to ensure that a person cannot contest from more than one seat.
The poll panel had also said that its proposal to bar candidates from contesting from more than one seat was rejected by a parliamentary standing committee way back in 1998, which had taken note of the view of an all-party meeting favouring to retain the provision.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud posted the matter for hearing in the second week of July. (AGENCIES)
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