Kolkata, April 30 -- The Calcutta high court on Thursday dismissed two petitions filed by All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) leaders related to West Bengal Assembly elections counting centres, stating that it did not find any "illegality" or "merit" in the two writ petitions.

A bench of Justice Krishna Rao was hearing petitions filed by TMC lawmaker Kalyan Banerjee and another by TMC MLA and state minister Javed Khan.

Banerjee, a TMC MP and senior advocate, challenged a clause in a communication issued by the poll panel on April 30, which said that "at least one among the counting supervisor and counting assistant at each counting table shall be a Central Government/Central Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) employee".

"The additional ch...