URL copied EC, govt failed to fathom disastrous consequences of permitting elections: Allahabad HC In a scathing comment on the Election Commission and the government, the Allahabad High Court has said that they "failed to fathom the disastrous consequences" of permitting elections in a few states and the panchayat election in Uttar Pradesh. A single-judge bench of Justice Siddharth Verma made these observations on Monday while granting protection from arrest 'on special grounds', till January 2022, to a builder based in Ghaziabad. A case had been filed against the builder by Uttar Pradesh Police over an alleged property possession default. The order also listed out what the special grounds were, saying "the apprehension of death on account of reasons like the present pandemic of novel coronavirus can certainly be held to be a ground for grant of anticipatory bail to an accused".