Local body polls will be notified in May last week, SEC tells HC

The Tamil Nadu State Election Commission (SEC) Monday informed the Madras High Court that elections to local bodies will be notified in the last week of May.

Counsel for the SEC made the submission on a contempt plea moved by the DMK for alleged wilful disobedience of court order in conducting the polls.

The case relates to the contempt petition filed by R S Bharathi of the DMK against the State Election Commission for not complying with the order of the court directing that the local body polls be completed by November 17, 2017.

The delimitation process of wards as per the 2011 census would be over in 90 days and election could be notified after that, the SEC informed a division bench of Justice M Sathyanarayanan and Justice M Sundar.

Recording the submission, the bench directed the SEC to report the status of the plea moved by it in the Supreme Court seeking more time to conduct the elections and to file a report on the delimitation process by January 28.

The contempt plea wanted ...