Court : Supreme Court of India
Decided on : Apr-18-2012
..... 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 .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Kerala
Decided on : Apr-13-2012
..... so whether the alleged announcements mentioned in paragraph, 12 of the election petition amount to commission of corrupt practice under section 123(4) of the representation of people act?12) whether the alleged announcements mentioned in paragraph 13 of the election petition were made as alleged and if so whether it amounts to ..... so whether the alleged announcements mentioned in paragraph 11 of the election petition amount to commission of corrupt practice under section 123(4) of the representation of people act?11) whether the announcements mentioned in paragraph 12 of the election petition were made, as alleged in the above paragraph, as part of ..... civil procedure for want of "concise statement of material facts" and "full particulars of corrupt practice" alleged, as contemplated under section 81 of the representation of people act?2) whether the election petition is liable to rejected/dismissed for want of proper verification of the annexures and schedules attached to the election petition .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Jharkhand
Decided on : Apr-05-2012
..... election commission is vested with the power under article 324 of the constitution of india and is discharging this responsibility by following procedures provided in the representation of peoples act, 1951. in the act there is no provision for submitting a request for rescinding of the election notification to the president of india. section ..... discipline in the name of secrecy of voting.” in paragraph 459 while considering the amendment in issue has observed that the parliament brought amendment through the representation of people (amendment) (act 40 of 2003) on the basis of the need to avoid cross-voting and wipe out evils of corruption as also to maintain ..... of india and ors.( [2006) 7 scc, 1 ) and upheld the constitutional validity of the amendment brought about in r.p. act, 1951 through the representation of the people( amendment) act, 2003 ( act 40 of 2003) after holding that these two measures may proven cross-voting and voting for illegal consideration. therefore, the election .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Supreme Court of India
Decided on : Mar-02-2012
..... vi rule 16 read with 5section 151 and order vii rule 11 of the code of civil procedure, 1908 (for short, 'cpc') read with section 86(1) of the representation of the people act, 1951 (for short, '1951 act') with prayer to strike out/reject the pleadings made in paragraphs 7(a), 7(b), 7(c), 7(d), 7(e), 7(f .....
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