The Telangana High Court in Kesana Vishnu Vardhan Goud vs Election Commission Of India recently addressed a plea urging the Election Commission of India (ECI) to allow pregnant women to vote via postal ballot. Chief Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur and Justice R Raghunandan Rao, presiding over a Division Bench, concluded a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition seeking this direction.
The court instructed that the petition be treated as a representation, prompting the ECI to deliberate on the matter and decide whether expecting mothers should have the option to cast their votes through postal ballots.
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