Chennai, May 13 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the Madras High Court's interim order to restrain TVK MLA R Srinivasa Sethupati from participating in the Assembly proceedings in Tamil Nadu over a postal ballot mix-up.

The High Court's interim order had come on a plea moved by the DMK candidate who lost to TVK's Sethupati in the Tirupattur constituency by one vote. DMK had alleged that one vote (a postal ballot) was wrongly counted in another constituency.

Observing that the High Court's decision to entertain the DMK candidate's plea as atrocious, a bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and Vijay Bishnoi have also asked DMK's KR Periakaruppan to file their counter affidavit in two weeks' time. TVK's Sethupati, the petitio...