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Manish Kumar Vs. Union Of India

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... unfair method or unfair or deceptive practice including any of the following practices, namely: (a) the practice of making any statement, whether in writing or by visible representation which, (i) falsely represents that the services are of a particular standard or grade; (ii) represents that the promoter has approval or affiliation which such promoter does ..... down by this court, in dealing with the challenge on the anvil of article 14, the court will not adopt a doctrinaire approach. representatives 249 of the people are expected to operate on democratic principles. the presumption is that they are conscious of every fact, which would go to sustain the constitutionality of the law. ..... but a thinly disguised attempt at questioning the law of the legislature based on malice. a law is made by a body of elected representatives of the people. when they act in their legislative capacity, what is being rolled out is ordinary law. should the same legislators sit to amend the constitution, they would .....

People's Union for Civil Liberties and Anr. Vs. Union of India (UOi) a ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : (2009)5MLJ587(SC); 2009(3)SCALE22; (2009)3SCC200; 2009(2)LC850(SC):2009AIRSCW2819

..... union of india (supra) on which reliance has been placed by the learned additional solicitor general, the constitution bench examined the petitioner's challenge to the representation of people (amendment) act 40 of 2003 by which the requirement of domicile in the concerned state for getting elected to the council of states was deleted. the ..... election by clandestinely providing funds in the form of black money to the political parties, parliament amended the companies act, income-tax act and the representation of the people act. the object of these amendments was to bring transparency in election-funding. common cause, a society registered under the societies registration act filed petition ..... law, nor in equity but is a statutory proceeding to which only statutory rules apply. the statute concerned with the election matters is the representation of the people act which is a complete and self-contained code and within it must be found any rights claimed in relation to an election or an .....

Shri Dharamvir and M.L. Sarwan Vs. Amar Singh and Others

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1996SC2314; JT1996(2)SC10; 1996(1)SCALE697; (1996)3SCC158; [1996]2SCR156

..... leave to appeal against the judgment dated 2.6.1989. the election petition was one filed under section 80 to 84 and 100 of part vi. chapter ii of the representation of people act, 1951 (hereinafter referred to as the act). in short, the prayer in the petition was to declare the election of the appellant (first respondent in the election petition .....

Lakshmi Charan Sen and ors. Vs. A.K.M. Hassan Uzzaman and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : 1985(2)SCALE384; (1985)4SCC689; [1985]Supp1SCR493; 1986(1)LC104(SC)

..... petitioners are enrolled as voters in the electoral roll of the west bengal legislative assembly. the validity of several provisions of the representation of the people act, 1950, the representation of the people act, 1951, the registration of electors rules, 1960, and the conduct of election rules, 1961 was challenged in the ..... officers concerned and all the staff working under them, were beyond reproach in their conduct in implementing the relevant provisions of the constitution, the representation of people acts of 1950 and 1951, the electoral registration rules, 1960 and the directions given by election commission in the preparation of the electoral rolls ..... will be disposed of, and names included, in the electoral rolls still the last date of making nominations, as permissible under section 23(3) of the representation of people act,1950.34. we order accordingly.baharul islam, j.35. the constitution of india envisages a sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic. each of the terms .....

Mange Ram Vs. Brij Mohan and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1983SC925; 1983(2)SCALE63; (1983)4SCC36; [1983]3SCR525

..... defeated. the remaining candidates lost their deposits. appellant called in question the election of the 1st respondent (the returned candidate) by presenting an election petition under section 81 of the representation of people act 1951 ('1951 act' for short). to this petition, the returned candidate as well as all other candidates who lost the election were impleaded as parties. in the election ..... high court of punjab and haryana has framed rules styled as 'rules of procedure and guidance in the matter of trial of election petitions under part vi of the representation of the people act, 1951' (high court rules for short). rule 22 of the afore-mentioned rules is relevant. it reads as under :22(1) a party desirous of requiring the attendance .....

B. Rajagopala Rao and anr. Vs. Appayya Dora Hanumanthu and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1990SC1889; JT1989(4)SC186; 1989(2)SCALE891; 1989Supp(2)SCC504

..... newspapers containing certain statements which are alleged to amount to a corrupt practice within the meaning of the said term in section 123(1)(a) of the representation of the people act, 1951 (hereinafter referred to as 'the said act'). the main question canvassed before us is whether the statements contained in these aforesaid advertisements amount to ..... having voted or refrained from voting.3. the advertisements very shortly stated, refer to the auspicious gifts made by the government of andhra pradesh to the poor people on the eve of new year and sankranti. in the said advertisements, it is stated that the said government which was formed by the telugu desam party ..... court questioning the election of respondent no. 1 as a member of parliament from srikakulam no. parliamentary constituency in the 8th general election to the house of the people. the points raised in these appeals are common and so are the relevant facts; and, hence, they are being disposed of by this common judgment. we .....

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, .....

Michael B. Fernandes Vs. C.K. Jaffer Sharief and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR2002SC1041; JT2002(2)SC87; 2002(2)SCALE157; (2002)3SCC521; [2002]1SCR1053

..... paragraphs of the election petition pertaining to the infraction of rules committed by respondents 7 and 8 are paragraphs 20a, 20d, 20f, 25 and 28. the representation of the people act, 1951 [hereinafter referred to as 'the act'] is an act, providing for the conduct of elections to the house of parliament and to the house ..... from the array of parties and by such deletion, there has been no illegality requiring interference by this court. mr. muralidhar, further contended that the representation of the people act being a full code by itself, prescribing the procedure to be followed and indicating the parties to be arrayed to an election petition and respondents 7 ..... 8. those respondents filed an application before the high court of karnataka for their deletion inter alia on the ground that under section 82 of the representation of the people act, it has been clearly indicated that who should be the parties to an election petition and since they have been unnecessarily impleaded, they should be .....

Loknath Padhan Vs. Birendra Kumar Sahu

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1974SC505; 40(1974)CLT283(SC); (1974)1SCC526; [1974]3SCR114; 1974(6)LC136(SC)

..... , but they were undertaken on behalf of the gram panchayat in terms of the schemes envisaged in the second five year plan as the respondent was the leader of the people and naib sarpanch of the gram panchayat, and the disqualification under section 9a was, therefore, not attracted in the case of the respondent. the high court also held, relying on ..... p.n. bhagwati, j.1. this appeal is preferred under section 116a of the representation of the people act, 1951 (hereinafter referred to as the act) against the judgment of the orissa high court dismissing an election petition filed by the appellant challenging the election of the respondent ..... were to be carried out by the gram panchayat on the basis of 50% subsidy from the government and 50% contribution by the people in terms of money or labour and it was as leader of the people and naib sarpanch that he had undertaken these works on behalf of the gram panchayat and not in his individual capacity in course of .....

Ram Sukh Vs. Dinesh Aggarwal

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : JT2009(12)SC352; 2009(12)SCALE638; (2009)10SCC541; 2009(9)LC4461(SC)

..... pertaining to ordinary civil litigation, it must apply with greater vigour in election matters where the pendency of an election petition is likely to inhibit the elected representative of the people in the discharge of his public duties for which the electorate have reposed confidence in him. the submission, therefore, must fail. coming to the second limb of the argument viz ..... be borne in mind that one of the essentials of the election law is to safeguard the purity of the election process and, therefore, the courts must zealously ensure that people do not get elected by flagrant breaches of that law or by indulging in corrupt practices, as enumerated in the act.8. in this backdrop, we may now turn to ..... d.k. jain, j.1. this appeal under section 116a of the representation of the people act, 1951 (for short the `act') is directed against the judgment and order dated 15th january, 2008, rendered by the high court of uttaranchal at nainital in writ petition no. .....