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Mar 29 2010 (HC)

N. Sengodan Vs. Deputy Commissioner of Police and Inspector General an ...

Court : Chennai

..... ' within the meaning of section 12. there are statutes which provide that persons who are convicted for certain offences shall incur certain disqualifications. for example, chapter iii of the representation of the people act, 1951, entitled 'disqualifications for membership of parliament and state legislatures' and chapter iv entitled 'disqualifications for voting' contain provisions which disqualify persons convicted of certain charges from being ..... we hereby draw the attention of parliament to step in and perceive the large many cases which per law and public policy are tried summarily, involving thousands and thousands of people throughout the country appearing before summary courts and paying small amounts of fine, more often than not, as a measure of plea-bargaining. foremost among them being traffic, municipal and .....

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Oct 31 1956 (HC)

Dr. V.K. John Vs. G. Vasantha Pai and anr.

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1957Mad320

..... and it is in this chapter ii that section 125 dealing with illegal practices occurs, the result, is, from the date of the coming into force of the representation of the people (second 'amendment) act, 1958, no election petition" can include a charge of the commission of an illegal practice. the most material section, however, of the ..... or poster. but it is clear to us that three of them are circulars. mr. nambiar relied upon decisions in which the corresponding provision in the representation of the people act in england was construed; but the words used in the english statute are "any bill, placard or poster" and the decisions turned upon the interpretation ..... corrupt practices specified in paragraphs 8 and 11 of the petition. the illegal practice specified in paragraph 12 was that mentioned in section 126(3) of the representation of the people act, 1951 (xliii of 1951), hereinafter referred to as the "act".particulars of the illegal practice were given in schedule d to the petition. briefly .....

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Dec 03 1965 (HC)

G. Ramasundaram and ors. Vs. the Inspector of Panchayats (District Col ...

Court : Chennai

Reported in : (1968)1MLJ318

..... of, or comprise, the village or town or any portion of the said village or town have beer, published, revised or amended in pursuance of the representation of the people act (xliii of 1950) any person authorised by the prescribed authority in this behalf shall publish in such manner as the government may direct, the portions ..... decisions requiring guidance of the legislature, being left to the executive under the impugned rules 11 and 13.9. learned counsel refers to provisions of the representation of people acts (xliii of 1950 and xliii of 1951), and points out that these acts specifically provided not only for the secrecy of ballot but also for ..... provided inter alia for the governor-general to make rules with respect to the conduct of elections including the application to elections of the principle of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote, and rules to regulate election, where certain of the seats to be filled are reserved for members of the scheduled .....

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Apr 16 1987 (HC)

K. Anbazhagan and ors. Vs. the Secretary,

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1988Mad275

..... could claim a privilege with regard to its own constitution and having regard to the express provisions in the constitution and the provisions of, the representation of the people act, none of those three privileges could be claimed by the legislative assembly in india.37. the question which necessarily falls for consideration therefore is ..... india because the manner and the procedure for its constitution are regulated by the express provisions of the constitution of india and the provisions of the representation of the people act. the sheet anchor of the argument advanced on behalf of the petitioners is the observation made by the supreme court in the u. p. ..... does not refer to a conviction under the prevention of insults to national honour act.30. a reference was made by mr. raghavan to section 11 of the representation of people act, 1951, which reads as follows: - '11 removal or reduction of period of disqualification - the election commission may, for reasons to be recorded, remove .....

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Dec 20 1991 (HC)

Thirubhuvanam Silk Handloom Weavers' Co-operative Production and Sales ...

Court : Chennai

Reported in : (1992)2MLJ260

..... the united kingdom where a parliamentary election petition is tried by two judges on the rota for the trial of parliamentary election petitions in accordance with the representation of the people act, 1949. section 5 of article 1 of the u.s. constitution provides that each house (senate and the house of representatives) shall be the ..... the difficulty in accepting this argument is that in part (i) of clause (4) the constituent authority expressly stated that the previous law, namely, the representation of people act as amended in so far as it related to election petitions and matters connected therewith was not to apply so far as the challenge to the election ..... of the house is the trial of controverted elections was transferred by statute to the courts of law. the present procedure is contained in the english representation of the people act, 1949. the trial is confided to judges selected from the judiciary. provision is made in each case for constituting a rata from whom these judges .....

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Jul 23 1954 (HC)

Erimmal Ebrahim Hajee Vs. Collector of Malabar at Kozhikode and anr.

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1954Mad1091; [1954]26ITR509(Mad)

..... show cause against the issue of the warrant. nor does section 48, revenue recovery act, provide for any procedure by which a defaulter imprisoned under that section can make any representation or file any appeal. 2. in the affidavit filed on behalf of the collector, who has been made the first respondent, details are set-out of the history of the .....

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Sep 14 1954 (HC)

In Re: B.N. Ramakrishna Naidu and anr.

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1955Mad100; 1955CriLJ452

..... works for the space of two years.' the poligar was deprived of his fees at the sea beach by the board of revenue. when he made his 'humble representation' against this action, the government issued the following order in 1796: 'the board are aware that the new regulations established for the collection of customs of this ..... for shifting to those accused of violating the statute the ourden of proving that the alien is either a citizen or eligible for citizenship; -- 'ibid morrison v. people of the state of california', (z25-30). the court's view was that the probability of injustice to an accused therefrom out weighed the public interest in convenience ..... law providing a special court of appeals with exclusive jurisdiction for the city of st. louis and a fewspecified countries. to the claim that thislaw denied to the people of these districts theequal protection of the laws in that they weredenied access to the general court of appeals ofthe state the supreme court replied: 'there isnothing .....

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Jan 23 1958 (HC)

G. Narayanaswami Naidu Vs. C. Krishnamurthi and anr.

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1958Mad343; (1958)1MLJ367

..... into account in a mere interpretation of the constitution.46. in this connection we cannot omit from considerations the provisions contained in sections 7 and 8 of the representation of the people act, 1951, as a parliamentary exposition or commentary on the meaning of the expression 'office of profit' under the union or state in article 191 and which ..... for declaring the election of narayanaswami naidu and jayaraj to be void on the ground that his own nomination had been improperly rejected. section 100(1) of the representation of the people act enacts:(1) subject to the provisions of sub-section (2) if the tribunal is of opinion.(c) that any nomination has been improperly rejected....shall declare ..... p. rajagopalan, o.c.j.1. the civil miscellaneous appeal has been preferred to this court under section 116-a of the representation of the people act from the order of the election tribunal, nagapattinam, in election petition no. 178 of 1957 before it.2. the election in question was to the .....

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Jan 07 1977 (HC)

Simpson and Co. Limited Vs. Joint Commissioner of Labour and ors.

Court : Chennai

Reported in : (1977)ILLJ161Mad

..... the rule has been substantially and fully complied with. the rule as to furnishing copies for service is directory and not mandatory. a similar provision under the representation of peoples act of 1951 was treated to be mandatory in view of the specific wording of section 85 of the act which says :the election commission shall dismiss the ..... to filing of certified copy of the decree along with the execution petition was held to be not mandatory. of course in a case which arose under the representation of peoples act in ch. subbarao v. member, election tribunal, hyderabad, : [1964]6scr213 , a similar provision was held as mandatory having regard to the language of section ..... 35 of the representation of peoples act of 1951 which is to the following effect :85. if the provisions of section 81 or section 82 or section 117 have not been complied with the .....

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Nov 15 1993 (HC)

Dr. Subramanian Swamy Vs. J. Jayalalitha and ors.

Court : Chennai

Reported in : (1994)1MLJ314

..... is dismissedtis not maintainable as the question whether the writ petitioner has become subject to the disqualification under article 191 read with section 9-a of the representation of the peoples act,1951, has to be gone into by the election commission as per article 192(2) of the constitution. all the contentions of the writ petitioner ..... minds of the litigant or the public at large, the reasonable doubt about the fairness of the administration of justice.27. under section 146(1) of the representation of the peoples act, 1951, the election commission enjoys the power to require any person, subject to any privilege, which may be claimed by that person, under any law ..... petitioner has become subject to any of the disqualifications mentioned in clause (1) of article 191 of the constitution read with section 9-a of the representation of the people act should not have been gone into by the learned single judge when the same question is pending before the election commission under article 192(2) .....

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