The bench of Justice KM Joseph and Hrishikesh Roy issued the notice after hearing arguments on the petition filed by Advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay for seeking debar all those persons against whom charges have been framed, from contesting the election as per the Law Commission's report.

It was argued that on 2nd Feburary 2014, the Law Commission submitted its 244th report on decrimilazation of politics but centre did nothing. Later a report was submitted on electoral reform and suggested steps for electoral and democratic reforms but the centre did nothing on that too.

The petitioner sought direction to the Election Commission to use its plenary power conferred under Article 324 to amend the ELection symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order 1968 to insert such a condition for the contestants.