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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday (June 12) dismissed the petition filed by Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan challenging the cancellation of her Rajya Sabha nomination from Madhya Pradesh being cancelled.

A bench comprising Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and A.S. Chandurkar on Friday held that the writ petition filed by Natarajan was non-maintainable and gave her liberty to raise the challenge in an election petition filed in terms of the Representation of the People Act, reported LiveLaw.

The court cited the Constitutional bar as per Article 329 while rejecting the petition.

“If the Court accepts such arguments to find out glaring cases which are required to be interfered under Article 32/226, and the other sets of cases, where the rejection is not so improper prima facie to relegate them to election petitions, this Court would be reading some principle which is not provided for under Article 329. We are afraid, that any such interpretation that in some of the matters this Court can interfere while leaving some others to avail the remedy........

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