Yashwant Singh v. State of Chhattisgarh
Case brief
What is this about?
Short threshold order of the High Court of Chhattisgarh at Bilaspur in WPC No. 1024 of 2025 (2025:CGHC:9509), decided 25.02.2025 by Bibhu Datta Guru, J. Petitioners Yashwant Singh and Vijay Kumar (residents of village Purai, District Durg) were represented by Shri Vikas Kumar Pandey, Advocate; the respondents — the State of Chhattisgarh through the Secretary, Department of Panchayat and Rural Development, the Collector-cum-District Chief Electoral Officer, Durg, the SDO, Durg, and the Chief Electoral Officer, State of C.G. — were represented by panel lawyer Shri Khulesh Sahu. On counsel's submission that the petition had become infructuous as the election had already been over, the Court dismissed the writ petition as infructuous. Contains no merits adjudication, statutory reference, precedent treatment or monetary relief; useful chiefly as an instance of dismissal on the ground of infructuousness in an election-related writ petition.