The Lucknow Bench of the court gave its judgement on the PIL filed by local lawyer Ashok Pandey.
Refusing to issue any direction, the Division Bench comprising justices V K Shukla and B K Srivastava observed the petitioner can raise his grievance before the Union government if he so desires.
The petitioner alleged Punia is acting as a Congress spokesperson which is not permissible under the law as he is chairman of the Commission.