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Krishnamoorthy Vs. Sivakumar and ors.

Court : Chennai

Reported in : (2009)5MLJ1255

..... wrong or false information. the proviso thereunder enabled the returning officer to conduct a summary enquiry in terms of section 36(2) of the representation of the people act, 1951, if the information furnished in the affidavit is considered to be wrong or incomplete or amounting to suppression of material information, as ..... required to revise its instructions in the light of directions issued in association for democratic reforms case : [2002]3scr696 and as provided under the representation of the people act and its third amendment.28. in their separate judgments, hon'ble justices p. venkatarama reddy and d.m. dharmadhikari, did not touch ..... directions can only cover the areas unoccupied by legislation. the qualifications and disqualifications of candidates contesting for elections are prescribed statutorily, (i) by the representation of the people act in respect of elections to state legislatures and the parliament and (ii) by the state legislatures in respect of elections to local bodies. .....

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 .....

S.P.K.Dhamodhar. Vs. Narayanasamy, and anr.

Court : Chennai

..... the petitioner had also declared that the election petition had been filed within the period of 45 days, prescribed, under section 81(1) of the representation of the people act, 1951. therefore, the petitioner had filed the election petition praying that this court may be pleased to declare the election of the first ..... first respondent ought to have furnished the correct information before the second respondent/returning officer, as per the requirements of section 33-a of the representation of the people act, 1951. by the said legislation, it is clear that the candidates should furnish true and real information, without suppressing the material and substantial ..... first respondent, who is the returned candidate, had furnished an affidavit, along with his nomination form, as mandated under section 33-a of the representation of the people act, 1951. from the information available about the candidates from the relevant website of the election commission of india, through the internet, it had .....

S.K. Sambandhan Vs. Election Tribunal, Madras and ors.

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1954Mad231; (1953)2MLJ483

..... that is based on the language of the notification dated 10-3-1952 which runs as follows:"in exercise of the powers conferred by section 169 of the representation of the people act, 1951 (43 of 1951) the central government....hereby directs that the following further amendments shall be made....."the argument for the petitioner is that the central ..... state legislative assembly, at an election held on 27-3-1953. on 4-3-1953 the governor of madras issued a notification under section 18(1)(b), representation of the people act (43 of 1951) hereinafter referred to as the act calling upon the members of the legislative assembly to elect 24 members to the legislative council. the ..... change that was introduced by the new rules. both under the old and the new rules the election to the legislative council is based on the principle of proportional representation by means of a single transferable vote. rules 96 and 97 of the old rules are as follows: "96. counting of votes: the returning officer shall then .....

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 .....

R.S. Raja Kannappan Vs. K.R. Periakaruppan and Others

Court : Chennai

..... supplied the essential and material particulars towards the allegations that the first respondent had indulged in corrupt practice as provided under section 123 of representation of people's act and that the first respondent exercised undue influence of the election officer and returning officer. the election petitioner had not pleaded and ..... by manipulating the electronic voting machines (evms). the relevant provision with regard to corrupt practice in this case is section 123(7) of the representation of people act, 1951. (iii) the allegation of corrupt practice under section 123(7) can be proved only by circumstantial evidence and probabilities and not by ..... this court framed the following issues: 1. whether the first respondent/ returned candidate indulged in corrupt practices as set out in section 123 of the representation of people act ? 2. whether the first respondent/ returned candidate had brought any undue influence on the district officer of the returning officer in the capacity of .....

Pon Paramaguru, Director General of Police (Retd.) Vs. State of Tamil ...

Court : Chennai

Reported in : 2006(2)CTC241; (2006)3MLJ129

..... elections, is carried out by the designated officers of the state governments concerned. it is felt that the provisions of the representation of the people act, 1950 and the representation of the people act, 1951, in this regard should be clearly defined so that during the relevant period, these officers would, while discharging functions ..... is also to be noted that in the counter affidavit of the election commission reference has been made to section 13cc of the representation of the people act, 1950.21. the representation of the people act, 1950, hereinafter referred to as r.p.act, 1950, is an act to, inter alia, provide for the ..... various powers relating to control of the election commission over any particular civil servant are covered by various provisions contained in the representation of the people act, 1950 and the representation of the people act, 1951 and other statutory rules and the election commission can exercise its authority only within the parameters of such provisions .....

S.Vetrivel and ors. Vs. Tamil Nadu Advocates Association and ors.

Court : Chennai

..... and to order fresh poll.64. a power similar to the one available to the election commission under section 58a(2)(a) or 64a (2)(a) of the representation of the people act, 1951, is not available under the bar council of tamil nadu election rules. the logic behind this is simple. in respect of elections to the houses of ..... . the power is exercisable only by the election commission upon receipt of a report from the returning officer under section 58a(1). similarly, under section 64a of the representation of the people act, 1951, the election commission has the power, on the basis of a report of the returning officer to declare the poll at a polling station to be ..... as is known in common parlance) in the case of elections to houses of parliament and houses of the legislatures of states, is traceable to section 58a of the representation of the people act, 1951, which was inserted by the amendment act 1 of 1989. as a matter of fact, (1) the power to declare the poll at a particular polling .....

C. Lakshmi NaraIn Vs. the Chief Election Commissioner, Nirvachan Sadan ...

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1997Mad125

..... extracted the passages of the supreme court, it is unnecessary for us to once again elaborately deal with the provisions. 6. section 21 of the representation of the people act, 1950 envisages the preparation of the electoral rolls of each constituency in the prescribed manner by reference to the qualifying date and shall come into ..... registration officer, air 1995 sc 1189 as followed (paras 2 and 3):--the representation of the people act, 1950 (hereinafter called 'the 1950 act') inter alia, provides for the preparation of electoral rolls, qualification of voters etc. part iii thereof comprising ..... .5. we have carefully considered the submission of the petitioner. with regard to the preparation of electoral role referring to all the persons in the representation of the people act as well as the registration of electoral rolls, the supreme court has referred to in its judgment reported in lal babu hussain v. electoral .....

S. Ramachandran, M.L.A. Vs. Hon'ble Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Legislat ...

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1994Mad332

..... the; competent authority for taking decision thereon. on the above reasoning, the general secretary was requested to comply with the provisions of the representation of the people act and then send details for taking further action. it will be useful to reproduce the letter in full which is as follows:---by special ..... 1993. to,the chief election commissioner,election commission of india,nirvachan sadan, ashok road, new delhi-110001.sub: intimation under section 29-a of the representation of the people act, 1951-- regarding change of office bearers.we hereby intimate the election commission of india, the following changes in the office bearers and also, ..... the very same date, the petitioner sent intimation to the chief election commissioner of india, new delhi, the 3rd respondent herein under section 29a of the representation of the people act, 1951 regarding the change of the office bearers. the said communication reads thus: phone : 8255941 pattali makkal katchi head office 629, anna salai .....