Gauhati HC strikes down minister’s power to hear Arunachal municipal defection appeals

Guwahati: The Gauhati High Court has struck down a provision of an Arunachal Pradesh law that allowed the minister in charge of Urban Local Bodies to hear appeals against decisions of the State Election Commissioner in municipal defection cases, ruling that such an arrangement does not provide an independent and impartial adjudicatory forum. A division […] The post Gauhati HC strikes down…