NAGPUR: The Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court on Friday issued a notice to the Election Commission of India on a petition by corporator Sandip Joshi. Joshi challenged the EC’s new notification of cancelling the old voters list and adopting a new procedure for graduate constituency assembly polls to be held in June 2008.

A division bench comprising justices Ambadas Joshi and R C Chavan, while directing the respondents to file a reply, fixed the petition for final disposal on October 31.