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Devilal Vs. Kinkar Narmadaprasad and ors.

Court : Madhya Pradesh

Reported in : AIR1982MP45

..... eat food cooked by harijans and the result would be that they would be excommunicated.8. the allegations clearly fall under section 123(2) of the representation of the people act. the gonds by such speeches, were likely to be unduly influenced in their electoral right for fear of social ostracism, excommunication or exclusion from ..... s counsel. the allegations in para 4 (1) (a) are allegations of corrupt practice of undue influence squarely covered by section 123(2) of the representation of the people act.7. the allegations in para 4 (2) of the petition refer to speeches made to adivasis, particularly to gonds. what the speakers including ramgir said ..... consideration in this election petition is whethernon-joinder of ramgir goswami as a party to the petition, should entail its dismissal under section 86 of the representation of the people act, 1951.2. admittedly ramgir goswami had filed his nomination paper on 1-5-1980 which the returning officer, after scrutiny, had accepted. ramgir goswami .....

D. Venkata Reddy Vs. R. Sultan and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1976SC1599; (1976)2SCC455; [1976]3SCR445

..... election petitioner to make out a strong case for setting aside an election. in our country election is a fairly costly and expensive venture and the representation of the people act has provided sufficient safeguards to make the elections fair and free. in these circumstances, therefore, election results cannot be lightly brushed aside in election ..... kumar v. mohan lal : [1971]3scr522 this court observed as follows:allegation of corrupt practice is a charge of criminal nature. the provisions in the representation of the people act are intended to preserve the purity of the election but at the same time these provisions should not be subverted for the impure purposes of maligning ..... the offensive pamphlets, and thus they helped the 1st respondent in committing a corrupt practice under section 123(3) and section 123(3-a) of the representation of the people act, even in regard to this corrupt practice, p. ws. 1 and 3 can either be equated to 'accomplices' or regarded as persons who actively .....

Chaturbhuj Chunnilal Vs. Election Tribunal, Kanpur and ors.

Court : Allahabad

Reported in : AIR1958All809

..... law in the act is identical with that which existed before the amendment. the interpretation of sub-section (2) of section 90 of the unamended representation of the people act by the supreme court is, therefore, fully applicable to sub-section (1) of section 90 of the act. the second principle, which we have mentioned ..... petition on those allegations would then be barred. this principle was laid down by the supreme court when interpreting sub-section (2) of section 90 of the representation of the people act, 1951, as it was before the amendment of 1956, but, even after the amendment in the year 1956, the language of the corresponding provision of ..... were both cases in which the questions of interpretation of the expression 'candidates who were duly nominated at the election', as used in section 82 of the representation of the people act, 1951 before its amendment by the amending act, 1956, came up for interpretation. this section 82 as used in the unamended act can no longer .....

M. Karunanidhi Vs. Dr. H.V. Hande and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1983SC558; 1983(1)SCALE344; (1983)2SCC473; [1983]2SCR629

..... was an integral part of the election petition and therefore the election petition must be dismissed summarily under sub-section (1) of section 86 of the representation of the people act, 1951. we further direct that the high court shall permit the appellant to withdraw the recrimination petition filed by him under section 97 of the ..... in point. one of us (venkataramiah, j.) had occasion to deal with the corresponding sub-section (3) of section 89 of the jammu & kashmir representation of the people act, 1957 which reads:every election petition should be accompanied by as many copies thereof as there are respondents mentioned in the petition and every such copy shall ..... 16, 1980. on july 14, 1980 the respondent, dr. h.v. hande, filed an election petition under section 81 read with section 100 of the representation of people act 1951 (for the sake of brevity hereinafter referred to as 'the act') challenging the election of the appellant on various grounds. the election petition was accompanied .....

Sandipan Bhagwant Thorat Vs. Ramdas Bandu Athavale

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : AIR2002Bom110; 2002(1)BomCR168; (2002)1BOMLR498; 2002(1)MhLj754

..... or the sikh religionshall be deemed to be a member of a scheduled caste.) section 3 of the representation of the people act, 1950 :-- allocation of seats in the house of the people. -- the allocation ofseats to the states in the house of the people and the number of seats,if any, to be reserved for the scheduled castes and for the ..... orderd.k. deshmukh, j. 1. this petition has been filed under the provisions of section 81 of the representation of the people act, 1951, challenging the election of the respondent as a member of the lok sabha from the pandharpur constituency, which is reserved for the candidates belonging to the scheduled ..... belongs to scheduled caste, the petitioner knew that the 1990 amendment was brought about to extend the benefits which are available to the members of the scheduled castes to the people like the respondent. still he filed this petition. the conduct of the petitioner of filing this petition and pursuing it, cannot be said to be either reasonable or .....

Dharampal Singh and ors. Vs. Smt. Jasma Devi, M.L.A.

Court : Punjab and Haryana

Reported in : AIR1989P& H64

..... election petitioner to make out a strong case for setting aside an election. in our country election is a fairly costly and expensive venture and the representation of the people act has provided sufficient safeguards to make the elections fair and free. in these circumstances, therefore, election results cannot be lightly brushed aside in election ..... security, certificate of oath and notice for scrutiny which was to take place on 26-5-1987. the returning officer under section 33(4) of the representation of the people act, 1951 (for short 'the act') is mandatorily required tosatisfy himself that the name and electoral roll numbers of the candidate and his proposer as ..... stage of scrutiny. it is indeed surprising that before scrutiny was done and the nomination papers were accepted by the returning officer, the two candidates and people interested in them went away from the place of scrutiny and did not remain available to the returning officer. in the circumstances, if the nomination papers .....

Mohd. YasIn Shah Vs. Ali Akbar Khan

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1976SC1866; (1977)2SCC23; [1976]SuppSCR1

..... the election petitioner to make out a strong case for setting aside an election. in our country election is a fairly costly and expensive venture and the representation of the people act has provided sufficient safeguards to make the elections fair and free. in these circumstances, therefore, election results cannot be lightly brushed aside in election disputes.6 ..... was illegally rejected the election of the appellant was void and was liable to be set aside under section 108(1) (c) of the jammu and kashmir representation of the people act--hereinafter referred to as 'the act', as amended upto date.4. in support of the appeal mr. altaf ahmed learned counsel for the appellant who was ..... of his absence which was not a lawful ground on which the nomination paper could have been rejected under section 47(2) of the jammu & kashmir representation of the people act. on the question of the overwriting the learned judge held that there was no doubt that there was overwriting on the signature of p.w. 1 .....

S.S. Dhanoa Vs. Union of India and Others

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1991SC1745; JT1991(3)SC290; 1991(2)SCALE205; (1991)3SCC567; [1991]3SCR159a; 1991(2)LC555(SC)

..... and of elections to the offices of the president and vice-president are vested in the election commission. the relevant provisions of the representation of the people act, 1950 and of the representation of the people act, 1951 further show that various functions are entrusted to, and powers are conferred upon, the commission in the matter of ..... by the same government or the earlier government, it loses its face. nothing can be farther from reality. in a democratic regime, the government represents the people. it adds to its respectability and credibility, if the government also owns its mistakes frankly. the truth of the matter as is apparent from the record is ..... is so appointed the chief election commissioner shall act as the chairman of the election commission.(4) before each general election to the house of the people and to the legislative assembly of each state, and before the first general election and thereafter before each biennial election to the legislative council of each .....

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 .....

Election Commission of IndiA. Vs. Telengana Rastra Samiti and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... occurrence of the vacancy.22. the rival contentions on the issue under consideration have been occasioned by the introduction of section 151a in part ix of the representation of the people act, 1951, with effect from 1st august, 1996. part ix of the said act which deals exclusively with bye- elections contains section 147 and sections ..... 1967 sc 1211 = 1967 (2) scr 489], held that the submissions made on behalf of the election commission that the provisions of section 151a of the representation of the people act, 1951, should be interpreted so as not to render sections 84, 98 and 101 otiose, was unsustainable. it was also held that a court should ..... allowed by the high court by its impugned judgment by applying the literal rule of interpretation. it was held that the provisions of section 151a of the representation of the people act, 1951, hereinafter referred to as `the 1951 act', were mandatory and that the pendency of election petitions and the uncertain consequences that might follow .....