HC issues notice to Delimitation Commission
A Bench of Justice C.S. Dias passed the order in a petition filed by Mr. Ashraf, in which he had mentioned that the names of 31,000 people were missing in Kochi Corporation limits, for the delimitation of wards under the civic agency. Quoting the 2011 Census, he said that there were 6.33 lakh residents in Kochi, but the Delimitation Commission has considered only 6.02 lakh people.
In Ward 5, the names of 8,144 people have not been mentioned. As per norms, a ward having 8,000 or more people must be retained, he said, and sought cancellation of the ward's delimitation.
The delimitation notification would be subject to the result of the writ petition, the court said.
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