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Feb 18 2021 (HC)

Shri Ravi Shivappa Padasalagi @ Savadi Vs. Shri Iranna Kadadi

Court : Karnataka

..... 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);].18. thus it becomes clear that elector in the case on hand is a person whose name is entered in the electoral role ..... . this election petition coming on for orders this day, the court made the following: order respondent no.1 has filed ia no.3/2020 under section 81 of the representation of the people act, 1951 ( the rp act for short) read with order vii rule 11 of the code of civil procedure, 1908 ( cpc for short) seeking rejection of election petition ..... advocate for r1; sri h.r.showri, hcgp for r2) e.p.no.1/2020 2 this election petition is filed under section81read with section1001)(d)(iv) of the representation of people act, 1951, praying to set aside the election in so far as the first respondent to the biennial election to the counsel of states by elected members of the legislative .....

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Aug 28 2000 (SC)

Shyamdeo Pd. Singh Vs. Nawal Kishore Yadav

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR2000SC3000; 2000(3)BLJR2012; JT2000(9)SC486; 2000(6)SCALE135; [2000]Supp2SCR668; 2001(1)LC78(SC)

..... so far as the disqualifications attaching to such persons are concerned. chaturvedi, j. noticed the well-settled practice in england having been adopted in the representation of the people act and held that an entry in the electoral roll has to be taken to be conclusive proof of the fact that the person fulfils the requisite ..... the preparation of electoral rolls, the delimitation of constituencies and all other matters necessary for securing the due constitution of such house of houses.10. the representation of the people act, 1951 was enacted to provide for the conduct of elections to the houses of parliament and to the house of houses of the legislature of each ..... in the succeeding paragraph.3. on 22-10-1986 the chief electoral officer, bihar in exercise of the powers conferred by section 27(3)(b) of the representation of the people act, 1950 (hereinafter the 1950 act, for short) issued a notification no. 1248 publishing a list of educational institutions of the state which shall be .....

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Jan 22 2010 (HC)

Madan Mohan Vs. Arun Shourie and 11 ors.

Court : Allahabad

..... not seem to be sustainable.conclusion76. right to elect or to be elected or to raise dispute against the return candidate are governed by statutory provisions contained in the representation of people act and rules thereunder. the provision contained in the act has got statutory force vide : 2002 (3) scc 521, michael b. fernandes v. c.k. ..... the parties, this court by an order dated 21.3.2006 had framed the 33 issues.service of copy of petition29. section 83 of the 'the representation of the people act, 1951 (in short hereinafter referred as the act) provides that an election petition shall contain a concise statement of the material facts on which the ..... after amendment of the election petition, the affidavit sworn and filed along with election petition originally does not fulfill the requirement of section 81 (3) of the representation of peoples act. the petitioner had sworn the affidavit on 13.7.2004 but no fresh affidavit was filed keeping in view the amendment incorporated on 4.8.2004. .....

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May 05 2021 (SC)

Jaishri Laxmanrao Patil Vs. The Chief Minister And Ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... 1860. 50.2. so read together, and for maintaining the purity of the electoral process and not vitiating it, clause (3) of section 123 of the representation of the people act, 1951 must be given a broad and purposive interpretation thereby bringing within the sweep of a corrupt practice any appeal made to an elector by a candidate or ..... entire material placed before us by the learned counsel, we record our conclusions as follows:50. 1. the provisions of clause (3) of section 123 of the representation of the people act, 1951 are required to be read and appreciated in the context of simultaneous and contemporaneous amendments inserting clause (3-a) in section 123 of the act and ..... 2 all er118:1990. ch 609 : (1990) 2 wlr1123(ca)]. (all er at pp. 122-23).].146. taking into consideration the amendment to section 123 of the representation of people s act, which introduced a new corrupt practice, i.e. the candidate making an appeal on the basis of his religion or caste, this court took the aid of the .....

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Feb 02 2023 (SC)

Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay Vs. Union Of India

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... chandrachud, cji1the petitioner has invoked the jurisdiction of this court under article 32 of the constitution to challenge the constitutional validity of section 33(7) of the representation of the people act 19511. 1 act of 1951 wpc9672017 2 2 apart from the above challenge, the petitioner seeks a direction to the central government and the election ..... to contest from more than one constituency for the same office simultaneously. the petitioner urges that the law commission in its 255th report had opined that the representation of the people act 1951 should be amended to provide that a person should not be permitted to contest from more than one seat at a time. 5 we ..... exchequer for holding a bye-election, it has been urged that the electorate which has cast its vote in favour of a candidate on the basis of the representations which were held out during the course of campaigning would be deprived of being represented by that candidate for the parliamentary or, as the case may be, .....

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Mar 29 2004 (HC)

Kannada Nadu Party Vs. the Election Commission of India and ors.

Court : Karnataka

Reported in : AIR2004Kant330; ILR2004KAR3574; 2004(4)KarLJ558

..... to mean an association or body of individual citizens of india registered with the commission as a political party under section 29-a of the representation of the people act, 1951.para 4 of the order provides for allotment of symbols. the said provision authorises the election commission to allot separate symbols in ..... candidates at such general election in the state.'7. political parties are required to register themselves with the election commission under section 29-a of representation of the people act.8. prior to promulgation of the symbols order, there was no provision either in the act or the rules for recognition of political ..... delhi-110 to the presidentkannada naadu party,giriraj annexe,circuit house road,hubli 580 029,karnatakasubject:-- 'kannada naadu party' --registration under section 29a of the representation of the people act, 1951, as a political party -- matters regarding.sir,i am directed to state that the election commission of india, after having considered your .....

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Aug 31 2007 (HC)

Krishna S/O Panchamrao Khopade Vs. Satish S/O Jhaulal Chaturvedi and o ...

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : 2007(6)ALLMR96

..... order to fill up the vacuum left due to non-legislation by parliament. it is high time that the parliament should consider amending the representation of the people act, 1951 by incorporating disqualification of the candidate for furnishing wrong or incomplete information and suppressing material information about the assets and liabilities of ..... of india had undertaken comprehensive study of the measures required to expedite hearing of election petitions and to have a thorough review of the representation of the people act, 1951 so as to make the electoral process more fair, transparent and equitable. the law commission made recommendation for debarring a ..... been materially affected. he submitted that the nomination paper filed by r-1 was rightly accepted by r-10. he submitted that neither the representation of people act, 1951 nor the rules, orders, instructions issued thereunder contained any provision regarding disqualification of a candidate due to filing of defective affidavit or .....

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Jul 31 1958 (HC)

Dr. Y.S. Parmar Vs. Hira Singh Pal and anr.

Court : Himachal Pradesh

..... . it is immaterial if the name of amar singh was not entered in the form before the appellant signed it. the election law (as contained in the representation of the people act, 1951, as amended) does not contemplate the delegation of powers under section 46, by the contesting candidate to anybody other than his election agent. since, ..... polling agent to be signed before presiding officer', 'i hereby declare that at the above election, i will not do anything forbidden by section 128 of the representation of the people act, 1951, which i have read/has been read over to me.' after that, the presiding officer. shri bhanu pratap, signed the form at the place ..... of dr. y. s. parmar was, however, challenged by an unsuccessful candidate, shri hira singh pal, by means of an election petition under section 80 of the representation of the people act, 1951 (which, hereafter, will be referred to as 'the act).'the petition was referred to an election tribunal, consisting of a single member, shri s. d .....

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Feb 16 1962 (HC)

Bholanath Srivastava Vs. Union of India (Uoi) and ors.

Court : Allahabad

Reported in : AIR1963All363

..... article 226 of the constitution.8. learned counsel urged that because in the present case the petitioner was questioning the vires of section 34 of the representation of the people act, 1951 the question could be raised in these proceedings; but in my opinion the ground on which the order rejecting the nomination paper is being ..... therefore, wants that order to be quashed. the nomination paper has been rejected on the ground that the petitioner had not complied with section 34 of the representation of the people act, 1951. the contention is that the provisions of that section were not valid and compliance with them ought not, therefore, to have been insisted upon ..... the parliament. he urges that by providing for an additional qualification of making a deposit of rs. 500/- by way of security section 34 of the representation of the people act really adds a qualification to the various qualifications mentioned in the constitution and that is not permissible. his case is that as section 34 was .....

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Nov 17 1994 (HC)

N. Kristappa Vs. Chief Election Commissioner and Others

Court : Andhra Pradesh

Reported in : AIR1995AP212; 1995(1)ALT121

..... is provided to man the election process. article 324 makes provision for a centralised electoral machinery. necessary legislation have been enacted in the nature of representation of the people act, 1950 and 1951. once the entire election process has been brought under the purview and control of the election commission, an authority constituted under ..... 324(1) the election comission cannot do something impinging upon the power of the president in making the notification under section 14 of the representation of the people act. but after the notification has been issued by the president, the entire electoral process is in the charge of the election commission and ..... to arbitrary exercise of power attributable to mala fides 13. the election process for state assemblies as well as parliamentary constituencies is contemplated under the representation of the people act, 1950 and 1951 (for short 'the act). the election process for the respective state assemblies is set in motion by the issuance of .....

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