The Uttarakhand High Court sent a notice to the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday on a plea seeking postponement of upcoming Assembly elections in the state in view of the threat posed by Omicron variant.

As per a report in Bar and Bench, a division bench of acting Chief Justice Sanjaya Kumar Mishra and Justice Narayan Singh Dhanik directed the counsel appearing for the Centre and Uttarakhand government to obtain instructions on the plea and listed the case for further hearing on January 3.