SC seeks AP’s reply on Odisha’s contempt plea for notifying Panchayat polls in its villages

from these villages.

"That the contemnor tactfully issued the impugned notification and attempted to conduct election during the pandemic time when the entire state machinery was engaged to fight COVID-19 pandemic,'' it said.

It said the attempt on the part of the contemnor to conduct election in the newly self-named three villages pertaining to the territory of petitioner state is nothing but a wilful attempt to sabotage the dictum of this court.