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C. Kuppusamy Vs. Chief Election Commissioner, Election Commission of I ...

Court : Chennai

Reported in : 2007CriLJ3483; (2007)5MLJ67

..... of oath; that this respondent has not taken oath beyond two constituencies and an invalid nomination is not a nomination within the meaning of the representation of people act, 1951.17. the 7th respondent would further narrate a precedent wherein a candidate, who contested from the amethi parliamentary constituency in uttar pradesh, ..... the general election from more than two constituencies, she would prima facie appear to have violated the provisions of section 33(7) of the representation of the people act, 1951, for making false declaration before the returning officers of 66-bhuvanagiri and 191-pudukkottai assembly constituencies when she filed her nomination papers ..... filed her nomination papers in four assembly constituencies viz. andipatti, dharmapuri, bhuvanagiri and pudukkottai, in contravention of section 33(7)(b) of the representation of the people act, 1951, and had given declarations that she had not been or would not be nominated as a candidate for more than two constituencies, .....

A.K. Subbaraya Goundar Vs. Muthusami Goundar and ors.

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1954Mad813; (1954)IMLJ191

..... petitioner was therefore declared elected as he was the only duly nominated candidate for the seat. the respondent thereupon filed an election petition under section 81, representation of the people act, 1951. the election tribunal held that the rejection of the nomination of the respondent was wrong and declared the election of the petitioner void. ..... 2. the following provisions of the representation of people act, 1951 and the rules framed thereunder are material for the disposal of this application. section 33, sub-section (3) is as follows: 'every ..... an election. he may appoint himself or some other person to be his election agent. the appointment has to be in writing. rule 4 of the representation of the people (conduct of elections and election petitions) rules, 1951, provides that every nomina-nation paper delivered under sub-section (1) of section 33 or under .....

M.A. Muthiah Chettiar Vs. SA. Ganesan

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1960Mad85

..... the corrupt practices set out in paragraph 6 the election of the respondent was liable to be declared void under s. 100(1)(a), (b) and (d) of the representation of the people act, 1951. these provisions run thus:'100. subject to the provisions of sub-sec. (2) if the tribunal is of opinion-- (a) that on the date of his election ..... , cleaning and so forth; and, but for this club-room,. they must have gone elsewhere; it was found more convenient to have this club-room; but the people who inhabited it were the people who were workers for the election; therefore, it seems to me that these were election expenses.'the noble baron also expressed the definite opinion that if a portion .....

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 .....

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 .....

P.N. Balasubrahmanyan Vs. Election Tribunal of North Arcot at Vellore ...

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1954Mad730

..... deal with the contentions raised by mr. ramaswami aiyar for the successful candidate, the second respondent, that rule 20(2) and (3) made under the representation of the people act, 1950 was 'ultra vires' and invalid and that even otherwise section 25 is not applicable because it is inconsistent with the later act of 1951. ..... the election petition was therefore dismissed.4. before dealing with the contentions laised before us it would be useful to set out the relevant provisions oc the representation of the people act, 1951, which were referred to as having a material bearing on the question to be decided, namely, whether the nomination of the petitioner was ..... the petitioner could not have filled up those particulars on the date of the nomination. he purported to reject the nomination under section 36(2)(d), representation of the people act, 1951.the election was duly held on 8-1-1952 without the petitioner; and the second respondent was declared duly returned. the return was published .....

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 .....