A vacation bench comprising justice G B Pattanaik and justice D P Wadhawa, while admitting Mohini's statutory appeal on Monday, against the High Court order of May 12, allowed the legislator to attend the assembly but barred her from participating in the proceedings of the house.

The bench also said she would not be entitled to vote and receive any remuneration as other members of the house till the disposal of the appeal.

Appearing for the appellant, senior counsel O P Sharma contended that the High Court had erred in setting aside his client's election on the sole ground that nomination papers of two covering candidates for Shiv Sena and Himachal Vikas Congress were wrongly rejected by the returning officer.

The appellant submitted in her petition that variousprovisions of the representation of Peoples Act and Symbol Order would show that the returning officer was right in rejecting the nomination papers of the two covering candidates once the nomination papers of the official candidates for the two parties had been accepted.