The Supreme Court Tuesday refused to entertain a PIL seeking a direction to the Election Commission to ensure that voters' fundamental right to know about criminal antecedents and assets of candidates in polls is enforced.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said such issues "cannot be the subject matter of judicial decisions" and the job pertained to other constitutional functionaries like the poll panel.
"Can it be the matter of judicial decisions and directions," asked the bench, which also comprised justices S K Kaul and K M Joseph.
Refusing to entertain the PIL filed by BJP leader and lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay, it said, "We have a lot of other work to do. Let the other constitutional functionaries work also... Working of the Constitution is the joint responsibility of constitutional functionaries."
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