In Brief
Two candidates in the Pune Municipal Corporation elections filed Special Leave Petitions challenging High Court orders—one dismissing a nomination rejection challenge, the other staying an election symbol allotment. The Supreme Court dismissed both petitions. It held that the elections were local body matters with no national significance, the High Court was competent to decide them, and alternative remedies existed. The Court emphasized that Article 136 confers discretionary jurisdiction and declined to exercise it given the local nature of the dispute and its heavily burdened docket.
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