Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition filed by BRS working president KT Rama Rao (KTR) and party candidate Maganti Sunitha that alleged widespread irregularities in the voter list for the Jubilee Hills Assembly constituency.

The court observed that the Election Commission of India (ECI) was already examining the objections in accordance with the law, and hence, no specific judicial intervention was necessary.

The petitioners had sought a judicial directive to investigate their complaints submitted to the Telangana Chief Electoral Officer on October 13 and 14, which alleged electoral malpractices and called for safeguarding the electoral process.

Senior advocate Dama Seshadri Naidu, representing the petitioners, pointed out that about 1,942 duplicate votes

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