Supreme Court to hear validity of CEC/EC appointment law on February 19, a day after incumbent Rajiv Kumar retires

Advocate Prashant Bhushan, for one of the petitioners said the case was time-sensitive due to the incumbent CEC’s impending retirement; Justice Surya Kant assured that “consequences” of the court’s decision on the validity of the current law would inevitably follow even if something had happened in the interregnum