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Allahabad High Court:<\/span> A writ petition was filed by former IPS officer Amitabh Thakur challenging Section 16 of the Chief Election Commissioner and other Election (Appointment, Commissioners Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Act, 2023, as unconstitutional. The Division Bench of Sangeeta Chandra and Brij Raj Singh, JJ., took note of the objection regarding the maintainability of the petition for the relief sought to be claimed therein and granted time to Amitabh to amend the same.<\/p>\n

The matter was listed for 05-09-2025.<\/p>\n

[Amitabh Thakur v. Union of India, 2025 SCC OnLine All 5447<\/a>, decided on 29-08-2025<\/span>]<\/p>\n\n

Advocates who appeared in this case :<\/p>\n

For the petitioner:<\/span> Petitioner in person<\/p>\n

For the respondent:<\/span> Additional Solicitor General of India Shashi Prakash Singh, Deputy Solicitor General of India S.B. Pandey, Senior Advocate O.P. Srivastava, Advocates Deepanshu Das and Anupriya Srivastava<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Section 16 provides immunity to the Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners from being prosecuted for any act, thing or word, committed, done or spoken by him when, or in the course of acting or purporting to act in the discharge of his official duty\/ 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