The Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association (SCAORA) on Wednesday called for nominations to the election of one female SCAORA member for the Supreme Court of India‘s Gender Sensitisation and Internal Complaints Committee (GSICC).
The election will be held on December 16 for which the nomination process will be open from December 9 to 13 from 10:30 am till 4:30 pm at the SCAORA office. Only candidates registered with SCAORA can file the nomination for the election.
In case, only a single nomination is received till the last date of filing of nomination, such candidate shall be elected unopposed and there shall be no casting of ballot thereafter. The declaration of tentative list of candidates will be on December 13 at 5:30 PM and the withdrawal of nomination/objection could be done before 1:00 PM on December 14.
The scrutiny of nomination papers and declaration of final list of candidates will be announced on December 14 at 4:00 PM onwards at SCAORA Office.
The polling will be on December 16 from 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM at the SCAORA Office while the counting of votes and declaration of results will be announced at 5:30 PM after the polling is over.
The candidates are requested to be present either personally or through their authorised representatives, so that the clarification on objection, if any, can be explained to the Election Committee.
Following an unanimous resolution passed by the Executive Committee of SCAORA yesterday, a request was made to conduct the election for the aforementioned purpose as the term of Abha Sharma, who was the nominated member in the GSICC is going to end on January 6, 2022.
These elections are being conducted for the purposes of representation at gender sensitisation and internal complaints committee of the Supreme Court in terms rule 4(2)(d) of The Gender Sensitisation And Sexual Harassment Of Women At Supreme Court (Prevention, Prohibition & Redressal) Regulations, 2013.