The Gujarat High Court was hearing a petition against the then Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi's alleged poll violation last year.
The Gujarat High Court today upheld a lower court order rejecting a petition filed by an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) worker against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for alleged poll code breach in 2014, saying that the magistrate had done so in an appropriate manner.
Justice JB Pardiwala while upholding the lower court order rejected admission of the petition, saying, "I am not impressed with your submission that the magistrate did not follow proper procedure while dismissing your petition."
He said, "As per my interpretation, the magistrate has power to reject and it was done in an appropriate manner, so I hereby reject it (petition)."
The petition was filed by AAP worker Nishant Verma against the verdict of the local court, which in May this year had dismissed his plea seeking legal action against PM Modi for allegedly breaching the poll code last year.
On April 30, last year, when the voting was underway on 26 Lok Sabha seats of Gujarat, Mr Modi, the then Prime Ministerial candidate of BJP, had addressed a press conference immediately after he voted in a school at Ranip area of Ahmedabad and displayed his party's symbol lotus, according to the petition.
Mr Modi also took a selfie from his mobile phone while holding a replica of the party's symbol, the lotus, it said.
Mr Verma had filed the plea before the high court against the order of Chief Judicial Magistrate of Ahmedabad Rural Court SR Sinh dismissing his plea by holding that the probe of the city Crime Branch, which had filed closure report giving a clean chit to PM Modi, was just and proper.