ECI panel counsel resigns citing conflict in values
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ECI officers say he had not been assigned any case since 2019.
An advocate on report on the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) panel of counsel in the Supreme Court, Mohit D. Ram, on Thursday resigned from the place, citing a distinction in values with the functioning of the Commission at present.
Mr. Ram wrote to the ECI, saying that he had been one among its panel counsels since 2013, however might now not proceed.
“…I have found that my values are not in consonance with the current functioning of the ECI; and hence I withdraw myself from the responsibilities of its panel counsel before the Supreme Court of India,” the letter said.
He added that he would guarantee a clean transition on the issues pending together with his workplace.
Mr. Ram couldn’t be reached for feedback on Friday.
ECI officers mentioned Mr. Ram had not been assigned any case since 2019. A senior official mentioned the ECI had three advocates on report who assisted senior counsel, who’re engaged on case to case foundation. Mr. Ram can be “disengaged” with regard to any issues pending with him, the official mentioned.
Mr. Ram’s letter comes in the wake of the ECI shifting the Supreme Court towards remarks by the Madras High Court that it was accountable for the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, the place Assembly elections have been concluded on May 2, and that ECI officers must be charged with homicide. The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to restrain the media from reporting the observations.
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