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Bhim Singh, President Jandk Panthers Party Vs. Election Commissioner o ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : 1996VAD(SC)54; JT1996(5)SC569; 1996(3)SCALE481; (1996)4SCC188; [1996]Supp1SCR15

..... of the constituencies. the possibilities of reducing the period were explored and reviewed. in view of the fact that notifications under sections 14 and 30 of the representation of the people act, 1951 have already been issued, it was felt that under the provisions of the act it is not possible at the present stage to change the ..... poll in the state of j&k.; the commission under its powers, under section 153 of the representation of the people act, 1951, is competent to issue and revise the schedule of poll, without separate notifications for the state of j & k. the commission shall do so ..... commission has considered and decided that it is not necessary to make revised recommendations to the president for the issue of notifications under section 14 of the representation of the people act, 1951 one for parliamentary constituencies in the rest of the country and another for those in j&k;, for accommodating the request of re-scheduling of .....

Madan Lal Vs. Hira Singh Pal

Court : Delhi

Reported in : AIR1968Delhi110; 4(1968)DLT3

..... 41) the necessary consequence of my finding is that the election of the respondent is declared tom be void under section 100(1)(c) of the representation of the people act, 1951. i further direct that the substance of the decision be communicated to the election commission, new delhi and the speaker of the himachal ..... the required 'attestation' amounted to a technical defect and of an insubstantial character which the returning officer was bound to disregard under section 36(4) of representation of the people act, 1951. their lordships held that the nomination papers had been rightly rejected in that case. but the importance of the decision lies in the ..... nomination paper could nto have been rejected. the supreme court judgment was rendered before the amendment of sub-section (4) of section of 36 by the representation of the people (amendment) act 27 of 1956. the said sub-section before its amendment reads asunder:-- 'the returning officer shall nto reject any nomination paper on the .....

Gopala Kurup Vs. Samuel Arulappan Paul and ors.

Court : Kerala

Reported in : AIR1961Ker242

..... therefore holding an office of profit under the government.the next is that both the successful personswere guilty of corrupt practice under section 123(5) ofthe representation of the people act, 1951, havingbrought voters to polling booths in a car and injeep, more particularly described in the schedule tothe election petition. the third ground ..... that:(1) the election petition, -- having asked more than one person being declared elected, went beyond what was permitted by section 84 of the representation of the people act, 1951; and on that ground it ought to be rejected; that (2) the amendment had been granted on insufficient grounds and without affording the ..... support of the alleged corrupt practice was unreliable and has been incorrectly accepted; that (4) to set aside election under section 123(5) of the representation of the people act, there should be established hiring or procuring of vehicle for conveyance of voters to the booth, but the tribunal has found only conveyance, without .....

Chief Electoral Officer Vs. Sunny Joseph

Court : Kerala

Reported in : 2005(4)KLT599

..... the law, as that would be sanctioning the vesting of a uncontrolled power in any agency bound to act in accordance with the provisions of the representation of people act 1950 in the matter of preparation of electoral rolls. full bench in the above case was dealing with the irregularity in the preparation of ..... question a material irregularity in the preparation of the electoral rolls in a proceeding under article 226 for failure to comply with the provisions of the representation of the people act 1950 or the rules, the position would be that it cannot be questioned either before or during the progress of or after the election ..... of the order in the gazette of india and these provisions contained in the order were to be supersede all provisions relating to such representation and delimitation contained in the representation of people act, 1950 and the delimitation of parliamentary and assembly constituencies order, 1961. in effect, this means the complete effacement of all provisions .....

K.T. Kosalram Vs. Dr. Santhosham and ors.

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1969Mad116

..... party under the provisions of the civil procedure code which are expressly made applicable to the trial of election petitions, subject to the provisions contained in the representation of the people act and the rules made thereunder.14. for the foregoing reasons and in view of the fact that serious allegations of irregularity, illegality and ..... in the petition. according to the tribunal, if the allegations against the returning officer are proved, it can take action under section 90 of the representation of the people act.12. in dwijendralal sengupta v. harekrishna kunar, (1963) 3 doabia's ele cases 206, the calcutta high court had an occasion to consider ..... after the election.6. learned government pleader appearing for the applicant-returning officer contends that the applicant cannot be impleaded under the provisions of the representation of the people act 1951; for, under that act, only the contesting candidates and the returned candidate can be made parties to the petition. if there is .....

S.V. Viswanathan Vs. G.P. Rangaswamy and ors.

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1967Mad244

..... that under the provisions of the district municipalities act, 1920, above referred to, the electoral roll for any assembly constituency, prepared in pursuance of the representation of the people act, 1950 becomes by incorporation, the electoral roll for the corresponding ward of a municipality, and every person whose name is in the aforesaid electoral ..... for the assembly constituencies which consist of, or comprise, the municipality or any portion thereof, have been published revised or amended in pursuance of the representation of the people act, 1950, any person authorised by the election authorities in this behalf shall publish in such manner as the state government may direct, the portions ..... the argument of sri nambiar, that the electoral roll for the assembly can only be regarded as an instrument created by statute, namely, the representation of the people act, by force of the provisions of which it has come into existence. certainly, it cannot be a mere material or physical object. as .....

Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam and anr. Vs. the Election Commission ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... and of elections to the offices of president and vice president held under this constitution shall be vested in a commission"3. section 29a of the representation of the people act, 1951, which comes under part iva thereof, provides for the registration of associations and bodies as political parties with the election commission. since the ..... was made by the election commission of india in exercise of the powers conferred on it by article 324 of the constitution read with section 29a of the representation of the people act, 1951, hereinafter referred to as the "1951 act", and rules 5 and 10 of the conduct of election rules, 1961, hereinafter referred to ..... outcome of the pending writ petitions and special leave petitions. we also make it clear that this order will not prevent the election commission from considering any representation that may be made by the political parties and from accommodating their prayer for a common symbol, to the extent practically possible.30. let these eleven writ .....

Dev Kanta Barooah Vs. Kusha Ram Nath and anr.

Court : Guwahati

..... as to filling in of the other entries.4. the expression 'electoral roll number' occurring in these two entries has been defined in rule 2(b) of the representation of the people (conduct of elections 'arid election petitions) rules, 1956, which runs as follows:'2. (1) in these rules, unless the context otherwise requires, --(b) ' ..... officers on the date of presentation of these nomination papers and they were duly endorsed after verification, as provided under section 33(4) of the representation of the people act. the first three papers were received by the deputy commissioner of nowgong who was the returning officer for nowgong constituency and the other two were ..... in the nowgong constituency of the assam legislative assembly called in question the election of dev kanta barooah by a petition under section 81 of the representation of the people act alleging that his nomination paper or papers were illegally rejected by the returning officer on scrutiny on 1-2-57. the petitioner filed five .....

Vithalrao Rajaram Hingwe Vs. M.K. Joshi and ors.

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : AIR1964Bom63; (1963)65BOMLR599

..... of the question acting under our constitutional powers; but so far as the right of the appellant to file an appeal under section 116-a of the representation of the people act is concerned, since the preliminary objection has been pressed we would briefly state our decision. 6. section. 116-a of the act states the right ..... the official gazette for proper orders. the notice was published in the maharashtra government gazette on the 13th september 1962. 3. now, section 115 of the representation of the people act requires that after a notice of abatement of an election petition is published under section 114, 'any person who might himself have been a petitioner may, ..... petition mahadeo thakre passed away on 26-8-1962 and consequent upon his passing away, the election petition abated under the provisions of section 114 of the representation of the people act. the tribunal declared the petition to have abated and on 31-8-1962 ordered that the notice of abatement should be published in the official .....

Balakrishna Bhaskar Paranjape Vs. H.R. Gokhale

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : AIR1973Bom32; (1972)74BOMLR508; 1972MhLJ820

..... to the application is concerned, though the petitioner has used the expression ' election agents' in the plural, in view of the provisions of section 40 of the representation of the people act, 1951, under which each candidate can appoint only one election agent whose name has to be communicated to the returning officer. i think it is superfluous to ..... 's discretion in the matter of ordering particulars has any application to an election petition in view of the mandatory terms of section 83(1)(b) of the representation of the people act, 1951, which enjoins that full particulars of any corrupt practice alleged by the petitioner in such a petition must be given in the petition itself. there ..... order1. this is an application under rule 22 of the rules framed by this court in regard to election petitions under the representation of the people act, 1951, by the respondent, praying that in view of the failure of the petitioner to set forth full particulars of the corrupt practices alleged by him, .....