PRAMOD TANWAR vs STATE ELECTION COMMISSION AND ANR

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$~49 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Reserved on: 21st November, 2025 Pronounced on: 24th November, 2025 + W.P.(C) 17367/2025 & CM APPL. 71521/2025 PRAMOD TANWAR .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Anurag Ahluwalia, Sr. Adv. with Mr. Anirudh Bakhru, Mr. Umang Tyagi, Mr. Zuber Ali, Mr. Atul Tanwar, Mr. Siddharth Sharma and Mr. Avi Yadav, Advs. Mob: 6398102838 Email: [email protected] versus STATE ELECTION COMMISSION AND ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Amit Sharma, Mr. Dipesh Sinha, Ms. Aparna Singh and Ms. Pallavi Barwa, Advocates for R-1 & 2 Mob: 9818087744 Email: [email protected] Ms. Urvi Mohan, Panel Counsel (Civil) for R-GNCTD Mob: 7718992441 Email: [email protected] Mr. Ripudaman Bhardwaj, CGSC with Mr. Kushagra Kumar and Mr. Amit Kumar Rana, Advs. for R-3/DP Mob: 9818030700 Email: [email protected] Dr. Monika Arora, Mr. Neeraj, Mr. Prateek Tanwar, Mr. Subhrodeep Saha, Mr. Prabhat Kumar, Ms. Anamika Thakur, Mr. Abhinav Verma and Ms. Khanak Tanwar, Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed W.P.(C) 17367/2025 Page 1 of 25 By:HARIOM SHARMA Signing Date:24.11.2025 14:51:44 Advocates for complainant (Ms. Chandrakanta Shivani). Mob: 8882173375 Email: [email protected] CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MINI PUSHKARNA JUDGEMENT MINI PUSHKARNA, J. 1. The present writ petition has been filed challenging the rejection of the petitioner‟s nomination by the Returning Officer (“RO”)/respondent no. 2, for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (“MCD”) Bye-Elections 2025 for the Naraina Ward, with prayer to direct the respondents to accept the nomination of the petitioner. 2. Learned Senior Counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the nomination paper of the petitioner has wrongly been rejected, as all the requisite information was properly