New Delhi, Sept. 3 -- The Madras High Court on Thursday dismissed a plea filed by former Tamil Nadu CM and DMK leader MK Stalin challenging the post-result checking and verification of EVMs and VVPATs in the Kolathur Assembly constituency polls and seeking 100% VVPAT counting and a declaration that the TVK candidate MLA VS Babu's election is void.

A Bench of Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G. Arul Murugan reasoned that the petition, in substance and effect, called in question the election of the returned candidate and was barred by Article 329(b) of the Constitution read with Section 80 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951.

The Court held that although the petition was structured around alleged infirmitie...