A hearing on a petition seeking elections to 111 civic bodies in Bengal ended before a division bench of Calcutta High Court on Friday.
The division bench comprising Chief Justice Prakash Srivastava and Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj is likely to deliver its verdict early next week. The court, however, made no mention of the December 19 Kolkata Municipal Corporation elections.
During the hearing of the case on Friday, the bench asked both the state government and the state election commission to inform it when and in how many phases would they hold elections to the 111 civic bodies.
State advocate-general S.N. Mukherjee sought time till December 29. He said fear about the possible spread of the omicron variant of Covid-19 had been preventing the government from planning the dates for the pending 111 civic polls.
