Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday allowed All India Football Federation president Kalyan Chaubey to withdraw the petition he had filed, challenging his defeat in the 2021 assembly polls from Maniktala.
The withdrawal removes all legal bottlenecks for the by-elections to the Maniktala assembly seat. The seat has been unrepresented since the death of Trinamool MLA Sadhan Pandey in 2022.Chaubey had filed a plea to withdraw his application on May 6. Justice Jay Sengupta had posted it for hearing on Thursday. The judge allowed him to withdraw his appeal. The matter is also being heard separately in the apex court. tnn