New Delhi, June 12 -- The Supreme Court dismissed on 12 June the writ petition filed by Congress member Meenakshi Natarajan challenging the rejection of her Rajya Sabha candidature from Madhya Pradesh.

The top court gave Natarajan liberty to raise the issue in an election petition filed in terms of the Representation of the People Act.

A bench comprising Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice AS Chandurkar declined the exercise of its writ jurisdiction citing the Constitutional bar as per Article 329, legal news website Live Law reported. The writ petition was accordingly dismissed as non-maintainable, it said.

The bench rejected the argument of the petitioner that Article 32 can be invoked to cure "glaring and manifest" errors in t...