Supreme Court Rejects Petition Seeking Ban On Use Of Body Parts As Poll Symbol

The bench dismissed the PIL filed by NGO 'Sarguja Society For Fast Justice'.

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a PIL seeking a direction to the Election Commission to refrain from allowing the use of body parts like "hand" as election symbol of political parties, saying it was intended to target the Congress party.

The Indian National Congress has "hand" as its poll symbol.

"What kind of a petition is this? You cannot have an eye, you cannot have a nose, you cannot have a hand. The purpose of this is to get rid of the hand (symbol)," said a bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra.