Bengal Panchayat poll: HC asks SEC to file affidavits, verdict on Friday

19 Apr, 2018

Kolkata, April 19: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday asked the West Bengal State Election Commission to submit affidavits detailing the steps it had taken following the Supreme Court's direction to allay apprehensions about the Panchayat elections,and extended its stay on the polling process till Friday afternoon.

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