The Supreme Court on Thursday quashed proceedings pending within the Madras excessive court docket over pleas difficult the election of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) Member of Parliament (MP) Kanimozhi from Tamil Nadu’s Thoothukudi

“The election petition is dismissed. The appeal is allowed,” mentioned a bench of justices Ajay Rastogi and Bela M Trivedi whereas quashing the proceedings.

A Sanathana Kumar, a voter, challenged Kanimozhi’s election from Thoothukudi in 2019, saying she failed to say her husband’s Permanent Account Number (PAN) in her election affidavit.

Kanimozhi mentioned her husband, a Non-Resident Indian dwelling in Singapore, neither possessed a PAN card nor does he pay any earnings tax in India.

Kanimozhi defeated Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s Tamilisai Soundararajan, who has since develop into the Telangana governor. A Muthuramalingam, a neighborhood BJP chief, substituted Soundararajan as a celebration within the excessive court docket in her plea towards Kanimozhi’s election after she develop into the governor.

The excessive court docket in 2019 rejected Kanimozhi’s plea for dismissal of the 2 election petitions difficult her election, saying the proceedings essentially wanted be taken to their logical finish.