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Apr 17 1998 (SC)

P.V. Narsimha Rao Vs. State (Cbi/Spe)

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1998SC2120; 1997(1)ALD(Cri)157; 1998(1)ALD(Cri)762; 1997(1)BLJR263; 1998CriLJ2930; 1998(3)SCALE53; (1998)4SCC626; [1998]2SCR870

..... has been specified to be for five years, and article 173 deals with the conditions of eligibility. reference is then made to certain provisions of the representation of the people act, 1950, which has provided for total number of seats in the legislative assembly, and so far as orissa is concerned, the second schedule mentions ..... election of m.l.as. is supervised, directed and controlled by the provisions contained in articles 324 to 329 of the constitution and the provisions of the representation of the people act, 1951, which brings home the distinction between 'office' and 'holder of the office'.9. the aforesaid submission appears to us to be unassailable. we ..... but in other parliamentary enactment relating to members of parliament the word 'office' has been used. having regard to the provisions of the combination and the representation of the people act, 1951 as well as the salary, allowances and pension of members of parliament act, 1954 and the meaning that has been given to the .....

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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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Apr 18 2012 (SC)

Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam Vs. Election Commission of IndiA.

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... party to be an association of a body of individual citizens of india, registered with the commission as apolitical party under section 29-a of the representation of the people act,1951, which as mentioned herein earlier, deals with registration of association of bodies as political parties with the election commission.ms. arora submitted that ..... writ petitioners, ms. meenakshi arora, learned advocate, appearing for the election commission of india, submitted that section 29-a contained in part 4a of the representation of the people act, 1951, provided a complete procedure as to the manner in which political parties were to be registered. part vof the act deals with conduct of ..... a pre-condition for recognition. accordingly, by virtue of powers conferred on it by article 324 of the constitution, read with section 29a of the representation of the people act, 1951 and rules 5and 10 of the conduct of election rules, 1961 and other powers vested init, the election commission of india made and .....

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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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Mar 04 1964 (HC)

D. Muralidhar Reddy Vs. Paga Pulla Reddy and anr.

Court : Andhra Pradesh

Reported in : AIR1964AP530

..... practices to establish the commission of such practices, beyond a reasonable doubt since, allegations as to corrupt practices within the contemplation of section 123 of the representation of the people act are of a quasi-criminal character, very strict proof is necessary to bring home the charge as in a criminal case.52. this principle finds ..... samithi of manopad with the object of influencing those voters all of which constitute corrupt practices within the terms of section 123(1)(b) of the representation of the people act and that he arranged meetings of his election campaign at several places some of which were addressed by the then chief minister, within twenty four ..... respondent, who secured 20,548 valid votes, the margin between the two being only 167.3. the respondent presented a petition under section 81 of the representation of the people act, 1951 challenging lie validity of this election and for a declaration that he was duly elected inter alia on the ground that the appellant got a .....

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Feb 19 2008 (HC)

Sh. Jaspal Singh Vs. Sh. O.P. Babbar

Court : Delhi

Reported in : 149(2008)DLT205; 2008(101)DRJ283

..... or government dues. (5) the educational qualifications of the candidate.24. after the hon'ble supreme court rendered its opinion on 2.5.2002, the representation of the people (3rd amendment) act 2002 was promulgated. simultaneously rule 4a was inserted in the conduct of elections rules 1961 as also form no. 26 prescribing the ..... of government of india, 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 and to reduce the distortions and evils that had crept into ..... nomination paper filed by s. ranjit singh by passing the following order:i have examined the nomination paper in accordance with section 36 of the representation of the people act, 1951 and decided as follows:nomination paper examined with its enclosures and following deficiencies noted:(i) affidavit as prescribed by eci not complete and .....

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Jan 23 1967 (HC)

Surendrasinhaji Jorawarasinhji Jhala Vs. U.M. Bhatta and ors.

Court : Gujarat

Reported in : AIR1969Guj292

..... contemplated under article 329(b)? the answer to the question depends on a consideration of the provisions of articles 324 to 329 and the representation of the people act, 1950 and the representation of the people act, 1951, articles 324 to 329 occur in part xv headed 'elections' and article 324 which is the first article in the ..... reading of articles 324 to 329 occurring in part xi of the constitution. but we find that this view is also supported by the representation of the people act, 1950, and the representation of the people act, 1951, made by the parliament in exercise of its power under article 327 of the constitution.6. when we turn to these ..... the various stages in the process of election and these stages arise subsequent to the issue of the notification. it would thus be seen that the representation of the people act, 1950, deals with various anterior stages such as allocation of scats, the delimitation of constituencies and the preparation of electoral rolls while the various .....

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