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Ms. Krishna Mohini Vs. Mohinder Nath Sofat

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR2000SC317; JT1999(8)SC379; 1999(6)SCALE616; (2000)1SCC145; [1999]Supp4SCR76

..... 2, 'political party' means an association or body of individual citizens of india registered with the commission as a political party under section 29a of the representation of the people act, 1951. the scheme of the symbols order shows that it does not deal with unregistered political parties. it deals with registered political parties by sub ..... singh have been wrongly and improperly rejected and the election of respondent no. 1 is liable to be declared void under section 100(1)(c) of the representation of people act? opp4. whether the nomination papers of jagdish chand bhardwaj were wrongly accepted and the result of election has been materially affected thereby? opp5. relief-12 ..... of nomination paper of jagdish chander bhardwaj. the two grounds were covered by section 100(1)(c) and section 100(1)(d)(i) of the representation of the people act, 1951(hereinafter referred to as the 'act', for short). both the pleas have prevailed with the learned designated election judge of the high court .....

Javed and ors. Vs. State of Haryana and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR2003SC3057; 2003(4)ALLMR(SC)707; 2003(4)AWC2920(SC); 2003(3)CTC620; JT2003(6)SC283; (2003)135PLR531; 2003(5)SCALE602; (2003)8SCC369

..... publishing and circulating leaflets. sections 123(5) and 123(5) of the representation of the people act, 1951, were challenged as ultra vires of article 19(1)(a) of the constitution, submitting that the provisions of representation of the people act interfered with a citizen's fundamental right to freedom of speech. repelling the ..... can best be achieved if the population explosion is checked effectively. therefore, the population control assumes a central importance for providing social and economic justice to the people of india (usha tandon, reader, faculty of law, delhi university, - research paper on population stabilisation, delhi law review, vol. xxiii 2001, pp. 125 ..... principles of state policy and the fundamental duties enshrined in article 51a. under article 38 the state shall strive to promote the welfare of the people and developing a social order empowered at distributive justice - social, economic and political. under article 47 the state shall promote with special care the .....

Baburao Vs. Manikrao and anr.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1999SC2028; 1999(3)ALLMR(SC)339; JT1999(3)SC530; 1999(3)SCALE704; (1999)5SCC38; 1999(Supp)SCC38; [1999]3SCR547; 2000(1)LC396(SC)

..... constituency, and according to the petitioner, the appearance of name of the respondent no. 1 in two constituencies is disqualification under section 16 of the representation of the people act, 1950.11. the learned judge after noticing the provisions of sections 14 to 25 of the 1950 act and also noticing the provisions in ..... not eligible to contest the election from nilanga constituency. according to the learned sr. counsel that on a conjoint reading of relevant provisions of the representation of the people act, 1950 and 1951, the high court should have held that the first respondent was not qualified to be chosen as he was not eligible ..... the legislative assembly. it was also contended by the appellant that the first respondent was not 'ordinarily resident' within the meaning of section 20 of the representation of the people act, 1950 (hereinafter called the '1950 act') in nilanga constituency and, therefore, not qualified to contest the election from the said constituency. it was .....

Era Sezhiyan Vs. T.R. Balu and Others

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1990SC838; JT1990(1)SC392; 1990(1)SCALE377; 1990Supp(1)SCC322; [1990]1SCR767

..... .6. before going into the controversy raised before us, we may note the relevant provisions of the election law. the election petition was filed under chapter-ii of the representation of the people act, 1951 (hereinafter referred to as 'the said act'). section 59 of the said act provides that at every election where a poll is taken votes shall be given ..... to the rajya sabha, the said election is by members of the legislative assemblies of the states and the election is an indirect election conducted on the principle of proportional representation by means of a single transferable vote. in the case of elections to the lok sabha and state assemblies, a rubber stamp with arrow cross-mark is provided with which .....

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 .....

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 .....

Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam Vs. Election Commission of IndiA.

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... party to be an association of a body of individual citizens of india, registered with the commission as apolitical party under section 29-a of the representation of the people act,1951, which as mentioned herein earlier, deals with registration of association of bodies as political parties with the election commission.ms. arora submitted that ..... writ petitioners, ms. meenakshi arora, learned advocate, appearing for the election commission of india, submitted that section 29-a contained in part 4a of the representation of the people act, 1951, provided a complete procedure as to the manner in which political parties were to be registered. part vof the act deals with conduct of ..... a pre-condition for recognition. accordingly, by virtue of powers conferred on it by article 324 of the constitution, read with section 29a of the representation of the people act, 1951 and rules 5and 10 of the conduct of election rules, 1961 and other powers vested init, the election commission of india made and .....

Sathi Vijay Kumar Vs. Tota Singh and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : 2006(14)SCALE199; 2007AIRSCW304; 2007AIRSCW304; (2006)13SCC353

..... those illegalities and irregularities had materially affected the result and the election of the returned candidate was required to be declared void under the provisions of the representation of the people act, 1951 (hereinafter referred to as 'the act') read with the conduct of the election rules, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as 'the rules'). ..... 2, 'political party' means an association or body of individual citizens of india registered with the commission as a political party under section 29a of the representation of the people act, 1951. the scheme of the symbols order shows that it does not deal with unregistered political parties. it deals with registered political parties by ..... the substitute candidate shall not be deemed to have been set up by that party for the purposes of the amended section 33 of the representation of the people act, 1951 and his nomination paper will be scrutinised by the returning officer having regard to the other provisions of that act.instructions were also .....

P.T. Rajan Vs. T.P.M. Sahir and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR2003SC4603; JT2003(Suppl2)SC613; 2003(3)KLT1081(SC); 2003(8)SCALE165; (2003)8SCC498

..... in the electoral roll of that constituency for the time being in force and who is not subject to any of the disqualifications mentioned in section 16 of the representation of the people act, 1950 (43 of 1950);'26. sub-section (1) of section 33 provides as under:'33. presentation of nomination paper and requirements for a valid nomination ..... to which the first respondent herein belonged to. according to the appellant, the said electoral roll in view of the prohibition contained in section 23(3) of the representation of the people act, 1950 (for short, 'the 1950 act') was void ab initio, as a result whereof the election of the first respondent became vitiated by reason of ..... electoral roll would render a general election invalid in law is the core question involved in this appeal filed by the appellant herein under section 116a of the representation of the people-act. 1951 (hereinafter referred to as 'the 1951 act') which arises out of a judgment and order of the high court of kerala dated 7.3 .....

Tek Chand Vs. Dile Ram

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR2001SC905; JT2001(2)SC114; (2001)2MLJ45(SC); 2001(1)SCALE471; (2001)3SCC290; [2001]1SCR527

..... aside the election of the appellant from 61-nachan (s.c.) assembly constituency and declaring it void, this appeal has been filed by the appellant under section 116a of the representation of people act, 1951 (for short `the rpa'), calling in question the correctness and validity of the said judgment and order of the high court.2. the material and relevant facts ..... not aware whether the request made by nikka ram was accepted.' in his evidence, he stated that he never found nikka ram canvassing in his presence. he only heard some people telling that he was trying to tell that after winning the election, he would formally join bjp. he was unable to give names or particulars of those some persons who .....