Parmod KumarNew Delhi, May 11 -- The Supreme Court on Monday restored, for now, Congress leader T.D. Rajegowda as a member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly representing the Sringeri Assembly constituency, while putting on hold the outcome of the re-verification of rejected postal ballots held on May 3, 2026, which had resulted in BJP's D.N. Jeevaraj being declared the winner.
Passing an interim order of status quo ante - restoring the position that existed before the May 3 recount of postal ballots - a Bench of Justice Sanjay Kumar and Justice K. Vinod Chandran noted that while the High Court had ordered re-verification of 279 rejected postal ballots, the Returning Officer had also recounted 562 valid postal ballots that were already ...