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Supreme Court bench led by CJI SA Bobde allows a week to Senior Advocate Harish Salve appearing for Andhra Pradesh State Election Commissioner to file an affidavit after he says that HC judges have been abused on twitter for their judgment on restoring Kumar as SEC

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Senior Advocate Salve informs the bench that tweets stated that "judges of the AP HC should be locked up with COVID patients."

Senior Advocate SK Ganguly for state of AP says state will ensure compliance

CJI: Governor had to intervene to appoint Kumar as SEC after HC judgment. There is contempt proceeding. What is this?

Governor Biswa Bhusan Harichandan on July 23 directed the state government to take necessary action for the reinstatement of N. Ramesh Kumar as State Election Commissioner (SEC) as per the High Court judgement dated May 29.

During its hearing on July 17 on the contempt petition filed by Mr. Ramesh Kumar, the High Court said he was at liberty to represent his case to the Governor. Accordingly, he met the Governor on July 20.

The Governor's direction came at a time when the Special Leave Petition filed by the government against the High Court verdict and it's application for staying the contempt proceedings initiated by Mr. Ramesh Kumar are pending disposal in the Supreme Court.

The High Court had on May 29 struck down the AP Panchayat Raj (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 2020 through which the government curtailed the tenure of SEC from five to three years and the consequent appointment of Madras High Court retired judge V. Kanagaraj as new SEC.

HC had further ordered to restore Kumar as SEC but the order was not complied with.