The Supreme
Court has agreed to hear on Wednesday the Uddhav Thackeray faction's
plea challenging the decision of the Election Commission recognising
the Eknath Shinde-led faction as the real Shiv Sena and ordering allocation of
the "bow and arrow" poll symbol to it.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the
Thackeray faction, mentioned the matter before a bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud
and Justices Krishna Murari and P S Narasimha on Tuesday.
If the EC order is not stayed then they will take over
the symbol and the bank accounts. Please list it tomorrow before the
Constitution bench, Sibal submitted.
The top court said it needs to go through the case
files and posted the matter for hearing at 3:30 pm on Wednesday
The Election
Commission on Friday had recognised the Eknath Shinde-led faction as the
real Shiv Sena and ordered the allocation of the "bow and arrow" poll
symbol to it.
In a 78-page order on the protracted battle for
control of the organisation, the Commission allowed the Uddhav Thackeray faction
to keep the "flaming torch" poll symbol allocated to it till the
completion of the assembly by-polls in the state.
The Commission said MLAs backing Shinde got nearly 76
per cent of votes polled in favour of the 55 winning Shiv Sena candidates in
the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly polls.
The Uddhav Thackeray faction's MLAs got 23.5
per cent of votes polled in favour of the winning Shiv Sena candidates, the
three-member Commission said.