The Supreme Court is all set to conduct hearing on a writ petition against the Election Commission (EC)'s decision to conduct re-elections at Bharatpur Metropolitan City Ward-19 in Chitwan district on Tuesday.

The hearing on the case, that was scheduled to take place on June 11, was postponed for today due to time constraints.

A full bench of SC acting Justice Gopal Parajuli and Justice Hari Krishna Karki will conduct hearing on the writ demanding to quash the EC decision for re-election.

The vote count in Bharatpur-19 was halted after CPN (Maoist Centre) allegedly stormed into the counting centre and tore 90 ballot papers on May 28.

The EC on June 3 decided to conduct re-election at ward no. 19 of Bharatpur Metropolitan City based on a report prepared by a probe team comprising of Office of the Chief Election Officer, Chitwan District Election Office and representatives of Election Commission.

The very next day on June 4 a writ petition was filed at the apex court, seeking annulment of the EC decision, by Gunja Man BK, a ward member candidate for Bharatpur-19, and Tulsiram Pandey, an advocate, responding to which the SC on June 5 had issued in interim order directing the EC to maintain status quo on its decision to conduct re-polling.