In Bihar SIR challenge, Supreme Court refers to 1977 verdict that says EC was not meant to be exalted as a ‘law unto itself’

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Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia refers to the court’s observation that ‘a free and fair election based on universal adult franchise is the basic’, and that powers of the EC under Article 324 must not end up creating a ‘constitutional despot’