India, June 7 -- The Delhi High Court on Saturday refused to order fresh elections for the Bar Council of Delhi (BCD) after alleged manipulation of ballot papers by a counting staff during the previous polling in February this year.

A bench of justices Anil Kshetarpal and Tejas Karia said that the manipulation of certain ballot papers by a member of the counting staff did not justify ordering a fresh election merely because the tampering was detected during the counting process.

The court observed that such cases must be addressed in accordance with the procedure prescribed under the Bar Council of India (BCI) Rules and the BCI Guidelines. The appropriate course was to rectify the affected ballots as per the established framework rather...