The Delhi High Court on Wednesday reserved its order on a plea filed by the Delhi Government against a single judge’s order restraining it from issuing a notification for next month’s Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) elections.

A division bench of Acting Chief Justice AK Sikri and Justice Rajiv Shah Endlaw reserved their order after both parties concluded their arguments. The February 7 order had directed city Government to update, within a month, the electoral rolls with photographs of voters for the DSGMC elections.

The directorate of gurdwara election (DGE) also challenged the order of Justice Vipin Sanghi ordering it to complete the exercise of delimitation in 46 wards within a month.

Challenging the order, the Government in its petition said that “the single judge had no right to pass such an order once the directorate has declared the schedule for the polls”.

On the delimitation of 46 wards, the Government said that it would take a long time and could be done only after the elections. The single judge’s order came on a petition filed by Harmohan Singh, a poll aspirant, alleging that the directorate had virtually announced the schedule for the election but the notification was yet to be issued.