Chandigarh, May 20 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court (HC) has dismissed a plea from Haryana cabinet minister Vipul Goel against the election petition filed by Lakhan Kumar Singla of Congress, challenging October 2024 polls result of Faridabad assembly constituency.

The petition filed by Singla in 2024 had alleged that Goel had committed corrupt practices within the meaning of Section 123(3) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951. His counsel and former Additional Solicitor General of India, Mohan Jain, had contended that the respondent, Goel, had openly made appeals to voters in the name of religion, invoked the name of God, and sought votes in the presence of idols of gods during religious functions and also alleged discrepanc...