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John John @ Onachan Vs. State Election Commission

Court : Kerala

..... 2nd respondent, i feel, the state election commission should issue proper guidelines and instructions with regard to the applicability of relevant provisions of law under the representation of the people act, 1951, the kerala panchayat raj act, 1994 and such other laws, to the electoral/returning officers and such other officials, in respect of ..... assumes importance and is perfectly justified.18. therefore, on an appreciation of the relevant provisions of the kerala panchayat raj act, 1994 and the representation of the people act, 1951, as aforesaid, i am of the considered opinion that no life ban can be imposed against a person from contesting an election ..... submitted by the petitioner, 2nd respondent has not adverted properly to the relevant provisions of the kerala panchayat raj act, 1994 as well as the representation of the people act, 1951, in order to ascertain whether the disqualification of the petitioner as prescribed under the aforesaid statutes still continued on the basis of .....

Jeevan Chandrabhan Idnani and anr. Vs. Divisional Commr.Konkan Bhavan ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... and `recognised party' occurring in section 31a of the municipal corporation act, must necessarily be given the same meaning as assigned to them in the representation of the people act, 1951 and the election symbols (reservation and allotment) order, 1968. 21. the expression groups, occurring under section 31a(2), once again, is ..... recognised party and registered party in the context of political parties have a definite legal connotation in this country. 19. part iva of the representation of the people act, 1951 provides for the registration of political parties. section 29a prescribes the procedure for the registration of a political party. such registration is ..... as bhartiya janata party, indian national congress, national congress, shiv sena, etc., are indisputably registered political parties under section 29a of the representations of the people's act and also recognised political parties in terms of the allotment of the symbols orders 1968 made by the election commission of india. .....

Kuldip Nayar Vs. Union of India (Uoi) and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR2006SC3127; JT2006(8)SC1; 2006(8)SCALE257; (2006)7SCC1

..... legislation cannot be struck down as unconstitutional. all the writ petitions questioning the constitutional validity of the amendments brought about in the representation of people the act, 1951 through the representation of the people (amendment) act, 2003 (act no. 40 of 2003), being devoid of merits are hereby dismissed. interim orders stand vacated. ..... on the legislative powers of the parliament in this regard. the amendments in sections 3, 59, 94 and 128 of the representation of the people act, 1951 by the representation of the people (amendment) act, 2003 (40 of 2003) has been made in exercise of the powers conferred on the parliament under article ..... election for constituting legislative assembly after premature dissolution of the existing one. however, in view of the scheme of the constitution and the representation of the people act, the elections should be held within six months for constituting legislative assembly from the date of dissolution of the legislative assembly.50. mr .....

Shrikant Vs. Vasantrao and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR2006SC918; 2006(2)ALT44(SC); (2006)108BOMLR320; JT2006(1)SC394; 2006(2)MhLj1; 2006(I)OLR(SC)393; 2006(1)SCALE344; (2006)2SCC682; 2006(1)LC357(SC)

..... on the grounds of equity or logic or perceived legislative intention. a combined reading of article 191 of the constitution of india and chapter iii of the representation of the people act, 1951 makes it clear that a person can be held to be disqualified for being chosen as, and for being, a member of the legislative ..... is not generally permissible.we think that the language as well as the legislative history of articles 171 and 173 of the constitution and section 6 of the representation of people act, 1951, enable us to presume a deliberate omission of the qualification that the representative of the graduates should also be a graduate. in our opinion, ..... state. apart from specifying four grounds of disqualifications, it provides that a person can be disqualified by or under any law made by the parliament. the representation of the people act, 1951, a law made by the parliament, has introduced six disqualifications for a person being chosen as and for being member of legislative assembly of .....

Shri Shankar Babaji Savant Vs. Shri Sakharam Vithoba Salunkhe and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1965SC1424; 1965MhLJ336(SC); [1965]2SCR403

..... of the elaborate argument of mr. sastri, we shall briefly examine the scheme of our electoral law on the subject. 10. part iii of the representation of the people act 1950 provides for the preparation of electoral rolls for assembly constituencies. section 21 or 25 of this act provide for the preparation and yearly revision ..... their votes and this improper refusal of votes was a ground of declaring the election to be void under section 100(1)(d)(iii) of the representation of the people act, 1951. mr. viswanatha sastri strenuously challenged this finding. 6. mr. sastri contended that the issues before the election tribunal as also the memorandum ..... court rejected savant's preliminary contention that the first appeal was not maintainable on account of non-compliance with the provisions of section 119a of the representation of the people act, 1951. this contention is no longer pressed before us. 2. the complaint of salunkhe that the returning officer improperly received and counted in favour .....

Haji Abdul Gani Khan Vs. Union Of India

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... 14 of the constitution of india; (p) consolidation of all the delimitation orders was already made by the election commission in accordance with section 9 of the representation of the people act, 1950; (q) articles 2 to 4 of the constitution are subject to other provisions of the constitution and the provisions of the said articles cannot override ..... central enactments incorporated in table-1 of the fifth schedule to the j&k reorganisation act became applicable to the union territory of j & k; (f) the representation of the people act, 1951 (for short the rp act of 1951 ) was not applicable to the elections to fill in the seats in either house of parliament in the state ..... made applicable to both the newly created union territories. prior to that, the jammu and kashmir representation of the people act, 1957 (for short j&k r.p20act ) was applicable to the state. we may note here that as the representation of the people act, 1950 (for short the rp act of 1950 ), was applicable to the state of .....

Abhishek Mishra Vs. The State of Goa, through its Chief Secretary and ...

Court : Mumbai Goa

..... council of ministers, against whom charges have been framed in respect of offences involving moral turpitude and also offences, specifically referred to chapter-iii of the representation of the people act, 1951. 20. in the case of parvez khan (supra) the challenge was to the refusal by the competent authority to grant compassionate appointment ..... provisions and the provisions contained in section 8 of the representation of the people act, 1951, it is not possible to read additional qualification/disqualification for being the member of the council of ministers. however, at the same ..... are extremely vague and incapable of any precise definition. the question was also examined in the context of the constitutional provisions, and section 8 of the representation of the people act, 1951, as to who could be the member of the council of ministers. the hon'ble apex court held that in view of the constitutional .....

Ramnath Vs. Dwarka Prasad and ors.

Court : Rajasthan

Reported in : AIR1959Raj201

..... use of the word 'after' definitely lays down that election petition can only be presented after the happening of the particular event. under section 81 of the representation of the people act, 1951, the legislature went to the extent of providing that an election petition cannot be presented earlier than the date of the election of the returned candidate ..... of a state or the electoral college of a union territory shall be the date of election of that candidate. thus according to the provisions of the representation of the people act, 1951, the date of an election of a candidate is the date of the declaration by the returning officer.34. section 67-a is nothing ..... annulled or cancelled by any authority except by an election petition. the date of election of a candidate is the date of such declaration. the provisions of the representation of the people act, 1951, in this point may be compared.31. section 66 of that act provides for the declaration of results. it states that when the counting .....

Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha Vs. Sitamarhi Central Co-operative Bank Ltd ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1967SC1494; 1968(16)BLJR1; 1967CriLJ1380a; [1967]3SCR163

..... this court in shri virindar kumar satyawadi v. the state of punjab : 1956crilj326 . there the question was, whether a returning office acting under sections 33 and 36 of the representation of the people act, 1951 and deciding on the validity or otherwise of a nomination paper was not a court within the meaning of sections 195(1)(b), 476 and 476-b .....

C.G. Janardhanan Vs. Joseph

Court : Kerala

Reported in : AIR1958Ker169

..... the works covered by the three contracts can be considered as works undertaken by an 'appropriate government' for the purposes of section 7(d) of the representation of the people act, 1951.12. the cochin and travancore states executed their instruments of accession to the dominion of india in august 1947. in may 1949 the ..... or for being a member of the legislative assembly or legislative council of a state, the state government'.the expression 'state government' is not defined in the representation of the people act, 1951. the definition of that expression given in section 3(60) of the general clauses act, 1897 (as adapted and modified by the adaptation ..... or the performance of any services undertaken by, the appropriate government.'7. the three types of contracts hit by clause (d) of section 7 of the representation of the people act, 1951, are :1. contracts for the supply of goods to the appropriate government;2. contracts for the execution of works undertaken by the appropriate government .....