The government today opposed the maintainability of a PIL in the Delhi High Court seeking to restrain candidates defeated in a Lok Sabha election from contesting the Rajya Sabha polls.<br/>The government told a bench of justices G S Sistani and Vinod Goel that such kind of petitions are not maintainable. There is a Supreme Court order also in this regard.<br/>'<br/>The bench also raised a question on the locus of the petitioner, who contended that candidates defeated in Lok<br/>Sabha polls should not be nominated to the Upper House. The court, however, listed the matter for further hearing<br/>on April 10. <br/>