Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh, November 26-
A Spokesperson of Chief Electoral Officer, Punjab informed that, the Supreme Court of India today (November 26) dismissed a Public Interest Litigation filed by evangelist Dr. K.A. Paul seeking physical ballot voting in India. Other prayers included issuing directions to the Election Commission to disqualify candidates for at least 5 years if found guilty of distributing money liquor and other inducements during elections.
Appearing as petitioner-in-person, Dr. Paul at the outset submitted before a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and P.B. Varale: "This PIL, I have filed before he could complete, Justice Nath orally remarked, "You have filed PILs earlier. How do you get such brilliant ideas?" To this, the petitioner responded that he is just coming from the Global Peace Summit in Los Angeles: "I just arrived from the great success of the summit on Saturday. This PIL, we have about 180 retired IAS/IPS officers and judges who are supporting me...I am Global Peace President and I rescued 3,10,000 orphans and 40 lac widows. We have 5,000 widows in Delhi."