The Supreme Court on Monday refused to interfere with an Uttarakhand High Court order setting aside a law which forbade parents with over two children from contesting Panchayat elections.A bench of Justices N V Ramana, Krishna Murari and Sanjay Kishan Kaul refused a Special Leave Petition filed by the Uttarakhand government through its counsel Tushar Mehta, seeking a stay on the high court order.Advocate Aayush Negi, representing Jot Singh Bisht who had challenged the law in Uttarakhand High Court, argued that the high court's order would not affect the election process and opposed the petition."The bench said that they would not interfere with the election process as the nomination process is already about to complete tomorrow," Negi told ANI.The hearing in the matter will go on, he said.On September 19, the Uttarakhand High Court modified a law framed by the state government and allowed those who had more than two children before July 25, 2019, to contest panchayat elections.The ...
