Supreme Court Dismisses Meenakshi Natarajan’s Plea

The Supreme Court today dismissed the writ petition filed by Congress member Meenakshi Natarajan challenging the rejection of her Rajya Sabha candidature from Madhya Pradesh.

The Supreme Court declined to interfere with the Returning Officer’s decision rejecting her nomination for the Rajya Sabha elections over the alleged non-disclosure of a criminal case in Telangana.

A bench comprising Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice AS Chandurkar observed that once a Returning Officer rejects a nomination paper, the statutory remedy available to an aggrieved candidate is to approach the Election Commission.

The court therefore refused to grant relief and left it open for Natarajan to approach the poll panel.(UPDATED ON 12TH JUNE 2026)