PIL against EC order to cover elephants dismissed

January 24, 2012 17:33

The Allahabad high court today dismissed a public interest litigation challenging the order of the Election Commission to cover the statues of elephants installed at various places in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh.

In its order, a division bench comprising Justice Amar Saran and Justice Ramesh Sinha, said the petitioner was "misguided in filing this frivolous petition on a misunderstanding of the correct legal position".

The elephant is the poll symbol of the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party which opposed the petition

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