{"id":66927,"date":"2019-05-14T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=66927"},"modified":"2019-05-14T00:59:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T19:29:00","slug":"sc-dismisses-plea-to-advance-poll-timing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/05\/14\/sc-dismisses-plea-to-advance-poll-timing\/","title":{"rendered":"SC dismisses plea to advance poll timing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>NEW DELHI, May 13<\/strong>: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea seeking a direction to the Election Commission to advance the poll timings to 5:30 am from 7 am for the seventh phase of the Lok Sabha polls in view of the searing heat and the month of Ramzan.<br \/>\nA vacation bench comprising Justices Indira Banerjee and Sanjiv Khanna rejected the plea, saying the notified timings of voting are from 7 am to 6 pm and voters can cast votes in the morning also.<br \/>\n&#8220;The timings are for 7 am to 6 pm. People can come in the morning to cast their votes. They (EC) will face logistical problem (if timings are advanced),&#8221; the bench told advocate Md Nizamuddin Pasha, who had filed the petition. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, May 13: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea seeking a direction to the Election Commission to advance the poll timings to 5:30 am from 7 am for the seventh phase of the Lok Sabha polls in view of the searing heat and the month of Ramzan. A vacation bench comprising Justices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}