APEX COURT JUNKS PIL ON ARUN GOEL'S APPOINTMENT AS POLL COMMISSIONER

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to interfere with the appointment of Arun Goel as an election commissioner (EC), noting that a Constitution bench had in March already gone into the process of his appointment and yet refrained from passing any adverse orders.

- Utkarsh Anand

"It won't be appropriate for us to interfere now. The Constitution bench has already gone into it and still chose not to pass that order... This has already been examined. A second round won't be the correct way to go about it," said a bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna and SVN Bhatti, dismissing a public interest litigation filed by NGO Association for Democra