Delhi HC refuses to entertain appeal against dismissal of challenge to Sisodia's 2020 poll win

NEW DELHI: (Feb 26) The Delhi High Court on Thursday refused to entertain an appeal against an order which dismissed a petition challenging the election of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia from Patparganj in the 2020 assembly polls.

A bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia told Pratap Chandra that his appeal against a single judge's decision was not maintainable in the high court as the Representation of the People Act provided that it ought to be filed in the Supreme Court.

"How this LPA (letters patent appeal or an intra-court appeal) is maintainable? Can LPAs be filed against election petitions? The appeal will lie in Supreme Court. If you want to challenge the order, appeal goes to the Supreme Court," it observed.