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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 .....

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 .....

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 .....

Jagan Nath Vs. Jaswant Singh and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1954SC210; (1954)IMLJ480(SC); [1954]1SCR892

..... 17. mr. chatterjee, the learned counsel for the appellant, drew out attention to certain decisions given by the different election tribunals constituted under the representation of the people act, 1951, in support of his contention. on a careful perusal of the different decisions given by the various election tribunals it appears that there ..... in this appeal it was intended before us that the election tribunal was not a court of general jurisdiction, that it was established by the representation of the people act, 1951, for the special purpose of trying election petitions, that its jurisdiction was derived from the statute upon certain specified terms and conditions ..... impleaded as respondents, brahma sarup, ram prashad poddar and the appellant, jagan nath, but he omitted to implead, as required by section 82 of the representation of the people act, 1951, baijnath, one of the candidates, whose nomination had been accepted but who had withdrawn his candidature subsequently. 3. on the 14th july, .....

Baldev Singh Mann Vs. Gurcharan Singh (Mla) and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : 1996IIAD(SC)1; AIR1996SC1109; JT1996(11)SC692; 1996(1)SCALE683; (1996)2SCC743; [1996]2SCR99; 1996(1)LC638(SC)

..... be rejected for non-compliance of the provision of rule 12 (f). chapter 4-gg of the high court rules and orders, vol. v & section 81(3) of the representation of the people act ?3. whether the petition does not disclose any cause of action ?4. relief.issues nos. 2 and 3 reproduced above were decided on 28th november, 1993 by order ..... faizan uddin, j. 1. this appeal under section 116-a of the representation of the people act, 1951 (hereinafter referred to as the act) has been directed against the judgment dated november 8, 1993 passed by the high court of punjab &haryana; at chandigarh dismissing the .....

Saritha S. Nair Vs. Hibi Eden

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... rejecting both the election petitions on 2 grounds namely: (i) that there were incurable defects in the election petitions in terms of section 86(1) of the representation of the people act, 1951; and (ii) that the petitioner was disqualified in view of the inhibitions contained in section 8(3) of the act read with article 102(1 ..... different yardsticks cannot be applied and that in any case, so long as the sentence of imprisonment remained suspended, the disqualification under section 8(3) of the representation of the people act, 1951, may not be attracted.10. it is to be noted at this stage that the petitioner filed her nomination from one more constituency, namely ..... 2 sureties.7. the returning officer, noted in his order dated 06.04.2019 that the petitioner stood disqualified in terms of section 8(3) of the representation of the people act, 1951, as the period of disqualification had not lapsed.8. aggrieved by the order of rejection of the nomination, the petitioner filed an appeal to .....

Bhikaji Keshao Joshi and anr. Vs. Brijlal Nandlal Biyani and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1955SC610; [1955]2SCR428

..... were vague, said as follows : 'the petitioners are prepared to give further particulars if the tribunal is pleased to permit under section 83(3) of the representation of the people act'. 14. this reply was filed on the 16th october, 1952, which is the very date on which the first of the above orders extracted from ..... them to vote for himself at the ensuing election. respondent no. 1 was guilty of bribery within the meaning of that term in section 123 of the representation of the people act. similar instances of giving illegal gratifications for securing votes of respective groups are - (a) donation to hariharpeth akhada; (b) payment to panch-bungalow ..... the other three candidates who, having been validly nominated went to the polls but were defeated. the appellants filed the election petition under section 80 of the representation of the people act, 1951 (act xliii of 1951) (hereinafter referred to as the act) for setting aside the election on various allegations. the petition was filed on .....

Sahodrabai Rai Vs. Ram Singh Aharwar

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1968SC1079; 1968(16)BLJR810; 1968MhLJ697(SC); [1968]3SCR13

..... correct. before we come to these rival contentions we find it necessary to refer first to the relevant provisions on the subject. 7. section 81 of the representation of the people act occurs in chapter ii which is headed 'presentation of election petition to election commission'. it provides as follows : 'presentation of petitions : (1) ..... should have been annexed to the copy of the election petition served on the respondents. in this connection our attention was drawn to the provisions of the representation of the people act to which we shall refer presently. on the other side it was contended that whatever the meaning of the expressions 'the election petition', 'annexures ..... examining the law on the subject the learned judge came to the conclusion that the election petition should be dismissed under s. 86 of the representation of the people act and he accordingly dismissed it with costs. no other issue which was struck between the parties was gone into because the election petition failed .....

Prabhu Narayan Vs. A.K. Srivastava

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1975SC968; (1975)3SCC788; [1975]3SCR552

..... given, the allegations made in the petition have to be ignored.this accords with the view which we have taken. furthermore, according to section 86 of the representation of the people act only petitions which do not comply with the provisions of section 81 or section 82 or section 117 are liable to be dismissed. we, therefore, overrule ..... court rules in respect of election petitions, which states that the rules of the high court shall apply in so tar as they are not inconsistent with the representation of the people act, 1951 or other rules, if any made thereunder or the cpc in respect of all matters including inter alia affidavits, was referred to. on the ..... of the respondent that the election petition should have been dismissed on the ground that it did not comply with the requirements of section 83 of the representation of the people act. this was on the basis that the affidavit filed in support of the election petition did not give details as to the material particulars in respect .....