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Apr 25 1977 (HC)

Mohinder Singh Gill and anr. Vs. Chief Election Commissioner and ors.

Court : Delhi

Reported in : ILR1977Delhi265

..... questioning the rejection of a nomination paper is 'questioning the election' within the meaning of article 329(b) of the constitution and sec. 80 of the representation of the people act, 1951.' it was also held :'where a right or liability is created by a statute which gives a special remedy for enforcing it, the ..... of n. p. ponnuswami (supra) observed as under: '.........inview of the provision of article 329(b) of the constitution and sec. 80 of the representation of the people act, 1951, the high court had no jurisdiction to interfere with the order of the returning officer.the word 'election' has by long usage in connection ..... elections. articles 327 and 328 deal with the first of these requisites, article 324 with the second and article 329 with the third requisite.................... ............. the representation of the people act, 1951, which was passed by parliament under article 327 of the constitution, makes detailed provisions in regard to all matters and all stages connected .....

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Jul 27 1998 (HC)

Commander V.S. Batra Vs. Chief of the Naval Staff, Naval Headquarters( ...

Court : Delhi

Reported in : 1998VAD(Delhi)91; 74(1998)DLT810; 1998(47)DRJ130

..... the election commission to the conclusion. this court found no reason to attribute a restricted meaning to the word 'trial' in section 98 of the representation of the people act, 1951. in the light of the above discussion, we hold that the trial commences the moment gcm assemble to consider the charge and ..... . triloki singh, : [1957]1scr370 , wherein the question was: as to when the trial begins in an election dispute under the provisions of the representation of the people act, 1951? the respondents had filed election petitions against the appellant under section 81 of that act alleging that the appellant had committed number of corrupt ..... decide the preliminary question of limitation before proceeding with matter on merits. while disposing of this question this writ petition will also form part of his representation along with the statutory appeal filed by the petitioner. the trial judge advocate will take these into consideration while disposing preliminary issue of limitation. he .....

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Jun 02 2011 (HC)

Dr. Anita Babbar Vs. Sh. O.P. Babbar and ors.

Court : Delhi

..... the petition and the person(s) accompanying or identifying him at the time of presentation. this practice is also contrary to the provisions of section 81 of the representation of peoples act, 1951. both these points came up for judicial scrutiny in the case of harcharan singh josh vs. hari kishan, ep 6/95 decided on 26.5. ..... for the purpose of rectifying the defects/objections pointed out by the registry and then refilling the same. such a practice is contrary to the provisions of the representation of peoples act and election rules framed by the high court. the endorsement made in the registry simultaneously with the filing of election petition is in the form of ..... no pagination. on perusal of the photographs it is found that no verification is done as attested true copies as provided u/s 81(3) of the representation of people act 1951. the petitioner has also failed to supply the alleged photographs of 20 scooters. the copy supplied of the alleged photographs under signatures are of 10 .....

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Feb 06 2014 (HC)

Manohar Lal Sharma Vs. Union of India

Court : Delhi

..... vice-president; the election commission. 13.we may also notice here certain acts passed under this entry, which are as follows: a) the representation of the people act, 1950; b) the representation of the people act, 1951; c) the delimitation act, 1972; d) the presidential and vice-presidential elections act, 1952; and e) some portions of ..... an elector."4. validation.-- notwithstanding anything contained in any judgment, decree or order of any court, tribunal or other authority, the provisions of the representation of the people act, 1951 (43 of 1951), as amended by this act, shall have and shall be deemed always to have effect for all purposes as ..... justice hon'ble mr. justice manmohan judgment n.v. ramana, chief justice:1. the present writ petition has been filed challenging the constitutional validity of the representation of the people (amendment and validation) act, 2013 (for short, impugned amendment and validation act, 2013) as being ultra vires the constitution of india (for short, the .....

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Sep 07 2018 (HC)

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 .....

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Sep 22 1975 (HC)

K.K. Birla Vs. the Press Council of India and ors.

Court : Delhi

Reported in : ILR1976Delhi753

..... reasons for the act it is stated : 'inthe matter of its composition, the bill closely follows the recommendations of the press commission and guarantees predominant representation to members drawn from the press who will consist of working journalists, including working editors of both english and indian language newspapers, and persons who own ..... the press council bill was later introduced to implement these major recommendations of the press commission concerning the establishment of a press council in india consisting of people principally connected with the press which would safeguard the liberty of the press. the press council act, 1965 received the assent of the president on november ..... information from diverse and antagonistic sources is essential to the welfare of the public; (c) such freedom is the foundation of free government of a free people; (d) the purpose of such a guarantee is to prevent public authorities from assuming the guardianship of the public mind; and (e) freedom of .....

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Oct 29 1979 (HC)

Nirmal Construction and Finance Company and anr. Vs. Union of India an ...

Court : Delhi

Reported in : ILR1980Delhi1; 1981LabIC1012; 1980RLR508

..... policy was disregarded.'a review of the case confirms the distinction between ordinary administrative action including the exercise of the power to enter into contracts and make representations by the government which is governed by the private law including the law of estoppel, and the exercise of sovereign executive power by the government in ..... uttar pradesh government to individual forms that exemption from sales-tax would be granted to them for a certain number of yeas. the representees acted upon the representation and changed their position. the law did not prohibit the government from granting such exemption. it could not thereforee be argued by the govt. that there ..... of the situation. none of these decisions can, thereforee, help the petitioners. (42) on the contrary, we have referred to several decisions in which the representation was a part of the government policy which was liable to change. the reasons of such change were not concerned with the conduct of the representees of the .....

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Aug 22 1984 (HC)

V.P. Dhingra Vs. Nihal Singh, Etc.

Court : Delhi

Reported in : AIR1985Delhi8; ILR1985Delhi482

..... of the use of the expression 'at the election' used in section 15(3) of the act. (10) the present language of section 82 of the representation of the people act, 1951 requires the joining in the petition as respondents three categories of candidates. it requires the joining of 'all the contesting candidates other than the petitioner ..... become a respondent. reliance is placed on 'jagan nath v. jaswant singh' (supra) wherein their lordship of the supreme court considered the provisions of the representation of people act, 1951 as to the impleading of the parties provided in section 82 and it was ruled that the defect could .be subsequently cured by the tribunal ..... . it was a case in which the question of interpretation of the expression 'candidates' who are duly nominated at the election as used in section 82 of the representation of the people act, 1951, before its amendment by the amending act, 1956 came up for consideration. it was held : 'now,the expression used by the legislature is not .....

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Dec 20 1984 (HC)

JaIn Exports (P) Ltd. Vs. Union of India and ors.

Court : Delhi

Reported in : 1987(29)ELT753(Del); ILR1985Delhi164

..... apply even to the benches that are constituted for deciding various matters by the tribunal. where data is more technical and factually complex, there should be more representation of technical members on the bench. but where it isnot so and particularly where legal interpretation is involved,the benches should have larger number of judicial members. ..... taxing statutes what is understood in common parlance is the meaning which has to be attached to them. they have to be taken in the sense which people conversant with the subject matter with which the statute is dealing will take them tobe. however, the same item may be understood in different contexts depending upon ..... technical sense but as understood in common parlance, being a word of every day use it must be construed in its popular sense meaning 'that sense which people conversant with the subject matter with which the statute is dealing would attribute to it.(18) the rationale in giving the ordinarily understood meaning to the words to .....

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Mar 27 1993 (HC)

i.K. Gujral Vs. Election Commission of India and ors.

Court : Delhi

Reported in : 50(1993)DLT458

..... for elections to various constituencies as well as separate notification for a particular constituency as the circumstances warrant. it is settled law that under the representation of people act there is no concept of election to the legislature as a whole but in substance it is an election from each constituency.(42) in ..... again emphasised on this argument. other counsel in other writ petitions endorsed the arguments of mr. bansal and mr. shantibhushan.(11) since the virus of the representation of peoples act, 1951 were also challenged in the writ petition of mr. gujral. notice was given to the attorney general. since attorney general was representing the election ..... thereforee, the commission, in exercise of the powers conferred by article 324 of the constitution of india, sections 58,58a, 135a and 153 of the representation of peoples act, 1951,and all other powers enabling it in this behalf, hereby countermand the aforesaid election.the election commission also directs that a copy of this .....

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