Red Cross election: Patna HC bars Bihar unit chairman from exercising admin work

The Patna High Court has restrained the present chairman of the Indian Red Cross Society, Bihar branch from administrative work as the election process of the society for election of chairman, vice chairman and treasurer of the managing committee has started and the voter list is yet to be completed.

- Arun Kumar

The bench of Justice Purnendu Narayan Singh, while hearing petitions challenging the election without updated voter list, also directed that the members of Motihari unit of the Indian Red Cross, “whose names have not been deliberately scrutinised by the state chairman, to approach the Secretary General, National headquarters of the Indian Red Cross, within a week so that the election scheduled on July 21 was not impeded in any manner.