<span style="color: #222222;">The Madras High Court today put on hold the Puducherry local body elections slated to be held in three phases from 21st of this month.<br />''<br />''Madras High Court also instructed the Puducherry State Election Commission to address several anomalies in the poll process for local body elections.<br />''<br />''Hearing the petitions challenging the reservations of seats reserved for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Backward Classes (BCs) and women, the bench comprising of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice PD Audikesavalu said the filing of nominations should be stopped immediately.<br />''<br />''The court observed that, merely because the elections to the local bodies need to be conducted urgently would not imply that they would be conducted unlawfully." The case has been posted till tomorrow evening.</span><br />