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The Election Commission on Monday said its order requiring candidates to disclose their criminal antecedents while filing nomination papers will remain in force despite an all-party meeting rejecting the move.
"The Commission is only following a Supreme Court directive," EC sources said.
The Commission had made it clear on June 20 that 'non-furnishing of the full and complete information by a candidate would be considered violative of the Court's directive'.
The sources said the Commission had turned down a request by the government to seek a fresh directive from the Supreme Court on the issue.
The government had made the request when the Commission had informed it about the Court order and said that an affidavit detailing a candidate's antecedent should form part of the nomination papers, the sources said.
The Commission had then told the government that it was bound by the Court directive to prescribe the affidavit before the July one deadline, they added.
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