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Hari Shanker Tripathi Vs. Shiv Harsh and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : (1976)1SCC897; [1976]3SCR308; 1976(8)LC242(SC)

..... administration functions exercised by the high court but refers only to such contingencies as are mentioned in the conduct of the actual elections under the provisions of the representation of the people act. for instance section 39(1)(a) provides thus:39. (1) as soon as the notification calling upon the elected members or the members of ..... summer vacation starting from may 25 to july 7, 1974, was a closed holiday. thirdly the period of limitation prescribed by section 81(1) of the representation of the people act expired on june 14, 1974 during the summer vacation. in the circumstances the inescapable conclusion would be that section 10 of the general clauses act would ..... , hearing the parties he held that the petition having been filed beyond time merited dismissal under section 86(1) read with section 81(1) of the representation of the people act, 1951. the election petition of the appellant was accordingly dismissed by the high court by its order dated february 19, 1975 and it is against .....

Buckley Vs. Valeo

Court : US Supreme Court

..... not more than 2 years or both. for the purposes of this section, "labor organization" means any organization of any kind, or any agency or employee representation committee or plan, in which employees participate and which exist for the purpose, page 424 u. s. 197 in whole or in part, of dealing ..... a substantial chance of being nominated. counting only the first $250 of each contribution for eligibility purposes requires candidates to solicit smaller contributions from numerous people. requiring the money to come from citizens of a minimum number of states eliminates candidates whose appeal is limited geographically; a president is elected not ..... rather to use public money to facilitate and enlarge public page 424 u. s. 93 discussion and participation in the electoral process, goals vital to a self-governing people. [ footnote 126 ] thus, subtitle h furthers, not abridges, pertinent first amendment values. [ footnote 127 ] appellants argue, however, that as constructed public financing .....

Smt. Indira Nehru Gandhi Vs. Shri Raj NaraIn and anr.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1975SC2299; 1975(Supp)SCC1; [1976]2SCR347

..... . the constitutions and laws of several countries leave the decision of election disputes to the judgment of the legislatures themselves. the history of the representation of the people act, 1951 as also various articles in our constitution show that judicial review can be excluded in appropriate cases as a matter of policy, ..... it is noticeable that no english case could be cited where any attempt was made by the british parliament to circumvent section 107 of the representation of the people act. 1949, which lays down:section 107. method of questioning parliamentary election.(1) no parliamentary election and no return of parliament shall be ..... iii of the constitution.40. where invalid elections declared by reason of corrupt practices have been validated by changing the definition of corrupt practices in the representation of the people act, 1951 retrospectively the original judgment is rendered ineffective. (see kanta kathuria v. manak chand surana : [1970]2scr835 .41. our federal court .....

Shri Umed Vs. Raj Singh and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1975SC43; (1975)1SCC76; [1975]1SCR918

..... the election process must, therefore, remain pure and unsullied and it has been the endeavour of our law makers to secure this by making various provisions in the representation of the people act, 1951. section 123, sub-section (1) (a) is one such provision. it must, therefore, doubtless be construed so as to suppress the mischief and ..... was offered with the object of inducing a person not to withdraw from being candidate at an election, it was not within the mischief of the section. the representation of the people (amendment) act 4 of 1966, therefore, added the words 'or not to withdraw' after the words 'to withdraw' in clause (a) and the words ..... solitary section, namely, section 123. sub-section (1) of that section defines the corrupt practice of 'bribery'. when section 55a was introduced in the act by the representation of the people (amendment) act 27 of 1956, sub-section (1) of section 123 was correspondingly amended and that sub-section, as amended, was in the following terms :123 .....

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 .....

Hukumdev NaraIn Yadav Vs. Lalit NaraIn Mishra

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1974SC480; (1974)2SCC133; [1974]3SCR31

..... governed by section 29(2) of the limitation act. in our opinion however the limitation act cannot apply to preceding like an election petition inasmuch as the representation of the people act is a complete and self-contained code which does not admit of the introduction of the principles or the provisions of law contained in the indian ..... the decision in vidyacharan shukla's case this court held that section 4 and 12 of the limitation act would apply, because 'there is no provision in the representation of the people act, 1951, which excludes the application of section 4 of the limitation act.'17. in lala rani's case : 1970crilj1014 to which a reference has been made ..... petition, however, was dismissed by the high court as being time-barred. against that judgment and order this appeal has been filed under section 116-a of the representation of the people act, 1951 (hereinafter referred to as 'the act').2. it may be mentioned that section 80-a was added to the act by the amendment act 47 .....

Satya NaraIn Vs. Dhuja Ram and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1974SC1185; (1974)4SCC237; [1974]3SCR20; 1974(6)LC126(SC)

..... be dismissed.7. the learned counsel for the appellant, mr. hardyal hardy, has made only the following two submissions before us:(1) the requirement under section 81(3) of representation of the people act, 1951 that spare copies of an election petition shall accompany the petition, is directory and not mandatory.(2) it is substantial compliance with the said directory provision if ..... p.k. goswami, j.1.this appeal under section 116a of the representation of the people act, 1951 (briefly the act is directed against the judgment and order passed by the high court of punjab and haryana in election petition no. 2 of 1972 dismissing it .....

Ramashankar Kaushik and anr. Vs. Election Commission of India and anr.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1974SC445; (1974)1SCC271; [1974]2SCR265

..... commission shall consist of a chief election commissioner and such number of election commissioners as the president may from time to time fix. section 2(g) of the representation of the people act, 1951 (hereinafter called the act) defines the word 'prescribed' as meaning 'prescribed by rules made under this act.' section 59 of the act provides that ..... party. the chairman and the general secretary were authorised to take a decision in the matter of giving representation in the committee to the i.s.p. (bihar) and other groups which decided to merge in the party. the committee also took a decision as regards the ..... the general secretary of the 'erstwhile s.s.p.', the general secretary of the 'erstwhile p.s.p.' and the chairman of the 'old i.s.p.' regarding the representation of the old i.s.p., socialist party (u.p.), socialist party (bihar) and the socialist party (west bengal) in the national ad-hoc committee of the socialist .....

Hari Prasad Mulshanker Trivedi Vs. V.B. Raju and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1973SC2602; (1974)3SCC415; [1974]1SCR548

..... decisions.11. before doing so, we think it proper to refer to the provisions of the constitution and the representation of the people act, 1950 and 1951 (hereinafter called the '1950 act' and '1951 act' respectively) which have a bearing on the subject.12. article 326 of the ..... and enter the names of respondents 4 and 5 in the election petition in the electoral roll in violation of the provisions of section 19 of the representation of the people act, 1950. it is, therefore, necessary to examine the decisions of this court to see whether the finding of the high court is justified by those ..... illegally entered in the electoral roll of the respective constituency in gujarat and as they were not 'electors' within the meaning of section 2(1)(e) of the representation of people act, 1951, they were not eligible to become candidates in the election. respondent no. 1 also raised several other contentions in support of the declaration prayed for .....

Kesavananda Bharati Sripadagalvaru and ors.Vs. State of Kerala and anr ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1973SC1461; (1973)4SCC225; [1973]SuppSCR1

..... comprehensive field of social life. the present report deals with what may broadly be described as political safeguards of minorities and covers the following points: (i) representation in legislature; joint versus separate electorates; and weightage.(ii) reservation of seats for minorities in cabinets.(iii) reservation for minorities in the public services.(iv) ..... be changed. the number of representation may be increased or reduced. the method of election of such representatives as parliament may by law prescribe and the number of the members of the house of the people may be increased or reduced. the method of election to the house of people may be changed. finally the ..... people is expressed in amending the constitution, it is as if it were they who were expressing the original sovereign will represented in the convention which drafted the constitution. there has been even a divergence of opinion among the writers in the u.s. as to whether the entrenched provisions for the representation .....