BJP Mayor Manoj Sonkar had already resigned ahead of the hearing. The SC noted that the Returning Officer had deliberately defaced eight ballots that were cast in favour of Kuldeep Kumar to make them invalid.
BJP leader and Chandigarh mayor Manoj Sonkar resigned from the post on Sunday night, hours before the Supreme Court was set to hear the case related to the irregularities in the conduct of elections.
While grilling Anil Masih, the returning officer (RO) for the Chandigarh Municipal polls for making marks on the ballot papers, the Supreme Court (SC) warned he could be prosecuted if he made any attempts to lie to the SC.
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