The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court dismissed the election petition filed by BJP leader and former Defence Minister of State, Subhash Bhamre. He had challenged Congress’s Shobha Bachchav’s victory from the Dhule Lok Sabha seat in the 2024 elections, citing alleged irregularities—claiming that votes were cast in the names of deceased individuals and duplicates recorded at various booths. Bhamre lost the election by roughly 3,800 votes. However, the court, led by Justice Arun Pednekar, found no tangible evidence—such as affidavits from polling agents or other corroborating materials—to support these allegations. It ruled that the mere presence of deceased individuals on the electoral rolls doesn’t automatically translate to fraudulent voting, thus rejecting Bhamre’s petition and upholding Bachchav’s win.

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