The court also orally told the LG not to proceed with the election of the chairman of the standing committee until the petition is heard after two weeks
The review petitions, considered in chambers by a seven-judge bench led by CJI Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, were dismissed as the bench found “no error apparent on the face of the record”
The controversial election was held on September 27, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s Sunder Singh securing the last vacant seat of the 18-member MCD panel
The petitioner accused the state authorities of conducting an illegal demolition of several historically and spiritually significant Muslim religious sites on September 28.