The Election Commission of India (ECI) has informed the Madras High Court that it has no jurisdiction to act on Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader KR Periyakaruppan's complaint over a disputed postal ballot in the Tiruppattur assembly constituency election.
According to ECI, Periyakaruppan raised no objections during counting and argued that the ECI ceased to have any role after the declaration of results.
Senior counsel G Rajagopalan, representing ECI, stated that Periyakaruppan had produced no evidence to substantiate the allegation that election officials had sent a postal ballot to the wrong Tiruppattur constituency.
The Court has reserved its verdict on Periyakaruppan's plea challenging the result in the Tiruppattur assembly constituency, where he lost to TVK candidate R Seenivasa Sethupathi by a single vote in the April 23 Tamil Nadu assembly election.
