Petition seeking removal of CEC, Supreme Court hearing today: Demands to determine whether Gyanesh Kumar alone exercised the powers of the Election Commission.

A petition by Rakesh Kumar Singh of Patna will be heard today in the Supreme Court. The petition demands the suspension of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar from his post. A three-member bench headed by the CJI will hear the petition, which alleges that some decisions of the Election Commission were taken without the approval of the other two Election Commissioners, Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi. On September 29th, Chief Justice Surya Kant...