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S.Subramaniam Balaji Vs. Govt.of T.Nadu and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... framed temporary guidelines until the legislatures passed a bill in that regard. however, in the case at hand, there is a special legislation, namely, the representation of people act wherein section 123 enumerates exhaustively a series of acts as corrupt practice . therefore, this is not a case of legislative vacuum where the judiciary can ..... issue no.1 whether the promises made by the political parties in their election manifestos would amount to corrupt practices as per section 123 of the representation of the people act, 1951?. 48) before going into the acceptability or merits of the claim of the appellant and the stand of the respondents, it is ..... of relevant authorities. in such circumstances, it cannot be claimed that these works amount to an unfair advantage or corrupt practices within the meaning of the representation of the people act, 1951. of course such spending is subject to the above act and the regulations of the election commission. (iv) the schemes under challenge .....

Ebrahim Suleiman Sait Vs. M.C. Mohammed and anr.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1980SC354; (1980)1SCC398; [1980]1SCR1148; 1980(1)LC12(SC)

..... ram and ors. : [1955]1scr608 in that case this court overruled the contention that section 123(5) and 124(5) of the representation of the people act, 1951, as the provisions stood at the time, were ultra vires articles 19(1)(a) of the constitution. section 124(5) ..... purpose, according to mr. nariman, section 123(3a) must be read with section 125 of the act. part vii of the representation of the people act, 1951 deals with 'corrupt practices and electoral offences''. section 123 is in chapter i of part vii which catalogues the corrupt ..... objectionable :9. the first paragraph of the speech as reported contains a statement that the society will not forgive the anti-religious league people, meaning the muslim league (opposition), because of their alliance with jansangh that had killed many muslims in northern india and also at ..... a.c. gupta, j.1. this is an appeal under section 116a of the representation of the people act, 1951.2. the election of the appellant to lok sabha from the manjeri .....

Mohammed Sultan & Anr vs.election Commission of India & Anr

Court : Delhi

..... of election in question by various candidates and these would come within the purview of corrupt practices as contemplated under part vii chapter i of the representation of the people act, 1951 and would also be an electoral offence within the meaning of the aforesaid statutory provision.3. that being the position, the remedy available ..... to issue a writ of mandamus or any appropriate writ, order or directions to direct the election commission of india to enquire the irregularities revealed in the representation and take erring candidates/members of the political parties. appropriate actions against the b. to pass such other order(s) as it may deem fit and ..... in which the election campaign preceded and it is indicated that the same amounts to violation of the model code of conduct inter alia contending that various representations pointing out these illegalities have not been addressed in the right perspective or not even considered, this petition has been filed in public interest and the .....

R.D. Paranjpe Vs. Ram Jethmalani and ors.

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : AIR1978Bom356

..... motion, the following issue was directed to be tried as a preliminary issue:'whether the petition is liable to be dismissed under the provisions of section 86 of the representation of the people act, 1951, read with section 82(b) of the said act on account of the failure of the petitioner to join prof. sadanand varde as a party to the ..... rs. 75,910 and rs. 66,260 respectively for their election and thus exceeded the maximum limit of rs. 35,000 as laid down in section 77 of the representation of the people act, 1951 (hereinafter referred to as 'the said act') and that by doing so respondents nos, 1 and 2 have committed a corrupt practice under section 123(6) of .....

Mool Chand Vs. Rulia Ram Panna Lal and anr.

Court : Punjab and Haryana

Reported in : AIR1963P& H516

..... the facts of the case which have been fully stated in the judgment of my learned brother. it is equally unnecessary to reproduce section 123(1)(6) of the representation of the people act which concerns us in this case, because it has also been produced, so far as relevant, in the said judgment.12. the word 'gratification' has, ..... another class of candidates that is a candidate who retired from the contest. this was provided in section 55a which has, however, been repealed by section 22 of the representation of the people (amendment) act, 1958 (act 58 of 1958). these are the four classes of candidates referred to in the act. all duly nominated candidates who have not withdrawn ..... at the last elections, has been dismissed by the learned tribunal by its order of october 29, 1962, under sub-section (3) of section 90 of the representation of the people act, 1951 (act 43 of 1951) on the ground of non-compliance with section 82 in that shri jai singh and shri zila singh were necessary parties under .....

Shri Shiv Kirpal Singh Vs. Shri V.V. Giri

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1970SC2097; (1970)2SCC567; [1971]2SCR197

..... would not be invalid by reason of the candidate making his signature before the proposer and the seconder. even subsequently, a similar provision in the representation of the people act, 1951, and the rules frame thereunder for conduct of elections and election petitions, was interpreted in the same manner by the election tribunal in ..... electoral registration officer or in the office where the chief electoral registration officer directs it to be preserved in accordance with the rules framed under the representation of the people act, 1950. in such circumstances., if the rule-making authority did not consider it safe to rely on printed copies of the electoral rolls ..... it was alleged that a poster was published against the ram rajiya parishad and jagirdars and this constituted undue influence within section 123(2) of the representation of people act, 1951. it was held that the publication of the poster constituted undue influence. the commission observed :it may be observed that an attempt to .....

Krishna S/O Panchamrao Khopade Vs. Satish S/O Jhaulal Chaturvedi and o ...

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : 2007(6)ALLMR96

..... order to fill up the vacuum left due to non-legislation by parliament. it is high time that the parliament should consider amending the representation of the people act, 1951 by incorporating disqualification of the candidate for furnishing wrong or incomplete information and suppressing material information about the assets and liabilities of ..... of india had undertaken comprehensive study of the measures required to expedite hearing of election petitions and to have a thorough review of the representation of the people act, 1951 so as to make the electoral process more fair, transparent and equitable. the law commission made recommendation for debarring a ..... been materially affected. he submitted that the nomination paper filed by r-1 was rightly accepted by r-10. he submitted that neither the representation of people act, 1951 nor the rules, orders, instructions issued thereunder contained any provision regarding disqualification of a candidate due to filing of defective affidavit or .....

Lok Prahari, Through Its General Secretary s.n. Shukla Vs. Union of In ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... various aspects of the electoral process to the various offices and bodies mentioned earlier. for the present, we are only concerned with two enactments. the representation of the people acts, 1950 and 1951 (hereafter rp act of 1950 or rp act of 1951) which contain provisions which elaborately deal with the electoral process to ..... of our highest legislative bodies in accordance with the intentions of the founding fathers of the constitution and the concern expressed by the framers of the representation of the people act, 1951 intervention of this hon ble court has become necessary in terms of the following observation of this hon ble court in the case of ..... rules, 1961 keeping in view the suggestion in para 38 of the wp; (2) to respondent no.1 to consider suitable amendment in the representation of the people act 1951 to provide for rejection of nomination papers of the candidates and disqualification of mps/mlas/mlcs deliberately furnishing wrong information about their assets in .....

Jan Chaukidar (Peoples Watch) Through Its Convenor Basant Kumar Chaudh ...

Court : Patna

..... v. union of india and anr., (supra) this is stated very clearly; 'the disability which is imposed under section 62(5) of the representation of the people act is equally applicable to all persons similarly situate mentioned therein and they are even prevented from contesting the election or offering themselves as candidates for such ..... kumar shastri v. union of india and anr., the supreme court observe :-- 'the disability which is imposed under section 62(5) of the representation of the people act is equally applicable to all persons similarly situate mentioned therein and they are even prevented from contesting the election or offering themselves as candidates for ..... a politician with criminal antecedents, though to a certain extent they may suffer the situation. the law specifically provides for keeping criminals away from the representation of people, in the forums of legislature and parliament. if anyone has any suggestion that there is a pface for all in the legislature, then the court .....

Achcha Bhoomanna Vs. the Court of District Munsiff (Election Court) Ad ...

Court : Andhra Pradesh

Reported in : AIR1992AP157; 1991(2)ALT496

..... as a criminal charge and the principle of preponderance of probabilities would not apply to corrupt practices.....'though this is said in cases arising under the representation of the people act, 1951 the same principles govern the questioning of elections under the andhra pradesh gram panchayats act, 1964 and the rules, and more so when ..... election tribunal in that case held that the election of the returned candidate could not be set aside under section 100(1)(d)(iv) of the representation of the people act, 1951 which provides that the election of the returned candidate shall be declared as void ifthe result of the election has been materially affected ' ..... dueto the said impersonation, rigging, etc. healso contends that the language of rule 51 ofthe rules is different from the language ofs. 83 of the representation of the people act,1951. he submits that the 1st respondent wasright in declaring the election of the petitioneras void.12. according to the learned counsel for the petitioner, .....