in April 2012 in the Rajya Sabha elections in Jharkhand (referred to in Chapter 10), when a large amount of cash was seized and the Commission had reason to believe that this cash was likely to be misused for buying votes while the MCC was in operation, the EC countermanded the election using the powers vested in it under Article 324. The Jharkhand High Court not only upheld the Commission’s order but hailed it as ‘the only step of great consequences taken by the Election Commission after independence of the country
