5.3 Hearing of Election Disputes in Different Levels: Jurisdiction and

Trial Nepal's election-justice map (the specialised routes): The first gate — the Election Commission itself: the candidacy's-and-roll's decisions (the finality's constitutional face — the courts above on the writ); the code's enforcement; the administrative adjudication; The election petitions (the results' challenges): the federal-and-provincial election disputes to the Supreme Court's Constitutional Bench (the constitutional-and-statutory design — the results' nullity, the corrupt practices' findings); the local-level disputes (the chiefs-and-deputies' results) to the High Court (the statute's allocation — the tier-appropriate forum); the petition's discipline (the limitation's window; the security-deposit; the trial's summary character); The criminal prosecutions: the offence's classification (the trial before the courts per the offence's gravity — the special-and-regular routes); The writ's supervision: the Supreme Court's-and-High Courts' extraordinary jurisdiction over the Commission's-and-officers' decisions (the jurisdiction, the errors, the rights' violations — Unit 6's cases' home: the candidacy's denial, the disqualification's legality); The intra-party disputes' separate track: the party splits-and-mergers (the Political Parties Act's machinery — the Commission's registration decisions; the courts' review). The trial's features: the election dispute's speed (the limitation's discipline — the results' finality's need); the evidence's peculiarities (the polling-day's proof; the officers' records; the observers'- agents' testimony).