NEW DELHI: In a fresh twist to the hearing on 20 AAP MLAs’ pleas against their disqualification in an office-of-profit case, the Election Commission of India (ECI) today produced before the Delhi High Court some confidential documents, saying these cannot be shared with the legislators.
A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Chander Shekhar was informed by the ECI counsel that they were handing certain documents including “personal notings” related to proceedings held in the poll panel.
“We are claiming privilege over these confidential documents, so we cannot supply them to the petitioners (20 AAP MLAs),” poll panel’s counsel Amit Sharma said, while producing the papers in a sealed cover before the bench.
The bench asked the ECI counsel to take instruction whether the documents can be supplied to the legislators after concealing the privileged portions.
The documents were produced by the poll panel during the hearing on the pleas of the disqualified MLAs, found guilty of holding office-of-profit as Parliamentary Secretaries to Ministers in the AAP Government after it came to power in 2015. (AGENCIES)
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