Outside the EVM strong room at Khudiram Anushilan Kendra in Jorasanko Assembly constituency in West Bengal on Thursday. (Express photo by Partha Paul)

Calcutta High Court news: The Calcutta High Court has dismissed a plea filed by the All India Trinamool Congress ( TMC ) challenging the deployment of central government and PSU employees as counting supervisors and assistants in the West Bengal assembly elections , holding that the decision falls within the domain of the Election Commission and does not suffer from any illegality.

Justice Krishna Rao rejected the plea, which had assailed a communication issued by the additional chief electoral officer mandating that at least one among the counting supervisor or counting assistant at each counting table be a central government or central Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) employee.

Justice Krishna Rao heard the matter on April 30.

“It is the prerogative of the office of the Election Commission of India to appoint the counting supervisor and counting assistant…