he Supreme Court on Monday made strong observations on the controversy that engulfed last week's Chandigarh mayoral election, in which the BJP's Manoj Sonkar defeated the AAP's Kuldeep Kumar by four votes, after eight from the latter party were declared "invalid" without cause. A video of Presiding Officer Anil Masih - a member of the BJP's Minority Cell - appearing to write on the ballot papers of some AAP councillors' before he entered them into the record - was widely shared on social media, drawing severe criticism from the Aam Aadmi Party and its allies.
