India, May 2 -- The Supreme Court is scheduled to hold a special sitting on Saturday to hear a plea filed by the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) challenging a Calcutta high court order that dismissed their petition against the Election Commission's (EC) directive to deploy central government and PSU employees for counting the votes polled in the West Bengal Assembly election.

The high court dismissed the AITC's petition on Thursday, saying there was no illegality in the poll panel's decision to appoint counting supervisors and assistants from central government and Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) employees, instead of the state government staff.

Filing an urgent appeal on Friday, the AITC approached the Chief Justice of India (CJI) ...