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Dec 18 2006 (HC)

Government of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by Its Prl. Secretary (P.R. and R.D ...

Court : Andhra Pradesh

Reported in : 2007(2)ALT263

..... the assembly constituency published under the representation of the people act, 1950 (central act 43 of 1950) as revised oramended underthe said act, upto the qualifying date, as relates to the village or any portion thereof;provided that any amendment, transposition or deletion of any entries in the electoral roll, or any inclusion of names in the electoral roll of the assembly constituencies concerned, made by the electoral registration officer under section 22 or section 23, as the case may be, of the representation of the people act, 1950, up to the date of election notification, for any election held underthis act, shall be carried out in the electoral roll of the gram panchayat and ..... (2) the electoral roll for a gram panchayat,_(a) shall be prepared and published in the prescribed manner by reference to the qualifying date,(i) before each ordinary election; and(ii) before each casual election to fill a casual vacancy in the office of the sarpanch and member of a gram panchayat; and(b) shall be prepared and published in any year, in the prescribed manner, by reference to the qualifying date, if so directed by the state election commission:provided that if the electoral roll is not prepared and published as aforesaid, the validity, or continued operation of the said electoral roll, shall not thereby be affected. .....

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Oct 16 2015 (SC)

Supreme Court Advocates-On-Record Association and Anr. Vs. Union of In ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... this was sought to be done by passing the representation of the people (amendment and validation) act, 2013, within three months of the rendering of the above judgment. ..... nariman, namely, that since the constitution (99th amendment) act, was brought into force, consequent upon the notification issued by the central government in the official gazette on 13.4.2015, the consideration of the njac bill and the passing of the njac act, prior to the coming into force of the constitution (99th amendment) act, would render it null and void, the learned attorney general invited our attention to article 118, which authorizes, each house of parliament, to make rules for regulating their procedure, in the matter of conducting their business. ..... to section 4(2), of the central vigilance commission act 2003, section 4(2), of the lokpal and lokayuktas act 2013, section 7, of the national commission for backward classes act 1993, section 29a, of the consumer protection act 1986, section 7, of the advocates welfare act 2001, section 8, of the university grants commission act 1956, section 9, of the protection of human rights act 1993, section 7, of the national commission for minorities act 1993, section 8, of the national commission for minority educational institutions act 2004, section 24, of the persons with disabilities (equal opportunities, protection of rights and full participation) act 1995, and a host of other .....

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Mar 05 1958 (HC)

Sadasheo Jagannath Barapatre Vs. Hemaji Hiraman Bakde

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : AIR1958Bom507; (1959)61BOMLR1141; ILR1958Bom1361

..... this is an application for revision under section 20-a (5) of the central provinces and berar municipalities act and it raises a somewhat interesting and important question as to the construction, and effect of section 74(2) of the representation of the people (second amendment) act (central act 27 of 1956).2. ..... kulkarni then invited attention to the provisions of section 74 of the representation of the people (second amendment) act, 1956 (27 of 1956) and ho urged that by virtue of section 74 (2) the alleged disqualification against the applicant had ceased consequent upon the repeal or section 143 of the representation of the people act of 1951, and therefore the civil judge was in error in holding the applicant disqualified on that ground.10. ..... 1931/a, dated 25-8-1956, and published in the gazette extra-ordinary of the government of india, part ii, section 3, dated 28-8-1956 the representation of the people (second amendment) act, 1956, came into force on 28-8-1956. ..... the order refers to section 143 of the representation of the people act and the notification issued thereunder and holds that this disqualification was a disqualification imposed by the law for the time being in force within the meaning of section 12 (3) (d) of the municipalities act. ..... the election petition came up for hearing before the 1st civil judge, nagpur, and the civil judge held that hemaji's withdrawal application was a forged application and therefore his nomination was not validly withdrawn. .....

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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

..... . it is further clarified that apart from the affidavit in annexure-1 hereto referred to in para 16 (1) above, the candidate shall have to comply with all the other requirements as s pelt out in the representation of the people act, 1951, as amended by the representation of the people (third amendment) act,2002 and the conduct of election rules, 1961, as amended by the conduct of elections (amendment) rules, 2002.44 ..... . the petitioners were allowed to challenge the validity of section 33-b of the amended act ..... . peoples union for civil liberties, lok satta and association for democratic reforms challenged the validity of the ordinance by writ petition nos ..... . the limitation of plenary character of power is when the parliament or state legislature has made a valid law relating to or in connection with elections, the commission is required to act in conformity with the said provisions ..... as such, the right of a person to question the validity of an election is dependent on the conditions prescribed in the different sections of the act and the rules framed thereunder. ..... . harisingh : air1975sc1274 wherein non-supply of postal address of the candidate or supplying cryptic address which virtually amounts to non-supply of address was held as failure to comply with the provisions of section 33(1) and consequently the nomination paper was held to be validly rejected. 36 .....

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Jun 15 2009 (HC)

Krishnamoorthy Vs. Sivakumar and ors.

Court : Chennai

Reported in : (2009)5MLJ1255

..... dated 2.11.2000, that it is the function of the parliament and not that of the court, to make necessary amendments in the representation of the people act, 1951, the delhi high court nevertheless issued a direction to the election commission to secure to the voters, the following information, from the contesting candidates:(i) whether the candidate is accused of any offence punishable with imprisonment and if so, the details;(ii) the assets possessed by a candidate, his or her spouse and dependent relations;(iii) facts giving insight into the candidate's competence, capacity and suitability for acting as an elected member, including details of the educational qualifications;(iv) information ..... the contents of paragraph-46 of the decision can be summarised in brief as follows:(i) the jurisdiction of the election commission is wide enough to include all powers necessary for the smooth conduct of the elections, including the entire process of election consisting of several stages and embracing many steps;(ii) the limitation on the plenary character of power is when parliament or state legislature has made a valid law. ..... chairman, central tractor organisation. .....

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Feb 23 2009 (SC)

People's Union for Civil Liberties and Anr. Vs. Union of India (UOi) a ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : (2009)5MLJ587(SC); 2009(3)SCALE22; (2009)3SCC200; 2009(2)LC850(SC):2009AIRSCW2819

..... the pendency of the appeal preferred by the union of india against the directions given by delhi high court in the writ petition filed by association for democratic reforms and another, the representation of the people act, 1951 (for short `the act') was amended by amending act ..... india : [1993]1scr786 a three-judge bench examined challenge to the representation of the people (amendment) ordinance, 1992 (ordinance no. ..... the court also examined validity of the amendments in sections 59, 94 and 128 of the act by which open ballot system was introduced for election to the council ..... jaffer sharief : 1994(3)scale674 and observed:it has to be stated that in an election petition challenging the validity of election, rights of the parties are governed by the statutory provisions for setting aside the election but this would not mean that a citizen who has right to be a voter and elect his representative in the lok sabha or legislative assembly has no ..... the limitation on plenary character of power is when parliament or state legislature has made a valid law relating to or in connection with elections, the commission is required to act in conformity with the ..... election petition challenging the validity of an election of a particular candidate, the statutory provisions would govern respective rights of the parties. ..... the right of an adult to take part in election process either as a voter or a candidate could be restricted by a valid law which does not offend constitutional provisions.shah .....

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Mar 19 2015 (HC)

Hans Raj Jain Vs. Election Commission of India

Court : Delhi

..... of the representation of the people act, 1951 (rp act) for registration as a political party; (b) on 2nd january, 2013 some further documents were filed in support of the application; (c) the respondent eci on 22nd march, 2013 registered aap as a political party and on the same day delivered the registration certificate to a person whose name was not available in the list of 300 persons filed by app as its members; (d) the petitioner on 5th december, 2013 approached the respondent eci under section 146 of the rp act for ..... the association or body is in existence at the commencement of the representation of the people (amendment) act, 1988 (1 of 1989), within sixty days next following such commencement; (b) if the association or body is formed after such commencement, within thirty days next following the ..... 29a or in the said guidelines requiring an inquiry to be conducted into the fairness and validity of the elections held for the post of ..... the emblems act, there is a prohibition against using the emblem or any colourable imitation thereof including pictorial representation of dharma chakra without the previous permission of the central government and no competent authority is entitled to register such a party; (f) aap had also not furnished any affidavit that its members were not a member of any political party as required by the guidelines and application format for registration of political parties under section 29a of the rp act, issued by the respondent eci; (g) though the .....

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May 02 2003 (HC)

Baddi Reddy Appanna Dora Vs. Atchamamba Korpu and ors.

Court : Andhra Pradesh

Reported in : AIR2003AP368; 2003(6)ALD165; 2003(4)ALT367

..... jose's case : [1984]3scr74 (supra), the act was amended and section 61 -a of the act was introduced by the representation of the people (amendment), act 1988 (act no. ..... declining to pronounce on the relative advantages or defects of either the conventional system of voting or voting by the use of electronic voting machines, had observed that it is for the legislature and the government to decide on the merits one or the other system, the supreme court, however, observed that voting by electronic machines is a better and sound method to avoid any defects and irregularities that might arise from the manual system, consequent on the above decision of the supreme court, the representation of the people act, 1951 (for short the 'act') was amended by inserting section 61 (a), by the amending act 1 of 1989 and the amended provision came ..... the trial court upheld the validity of the election rejecting the contention of the appellant that the conduct of the election by electronic voting machines was contrary to the provisions of the act. ..... rule 49-a to x of the rules were incorporated in chapter-ii in part-iv of the rules by a notification of the central government in s. o. .....

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Jun 12 1996 (HC)

C. Lakshmi NaraIn Vs. the Chief Election Commissioner, Nirvachan Sadan ...

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1997Mad125

..... section 23(3)of the representation of the people act, 1950 says that 'no amendment, transposition or deletion of any entry shall be made under section 22 and no direction for the inclusion of a name in the electoral roll of a con-stitutency shall be given under this section, after the last date for making nominations for an election in the constituency or in the parliamentary constituency within which that constitutency is comprised and before the completion of that election'. ..... jatti, : [1971]2scr611 their lordships of the supreme court said that 'the entire scheme of the act of 1950 (representation of the people act) and the amplitude of its provisions show that the entries made in an electoral roll of a constituency can only be challenged in accordance with the machinery provided by it and not in other manner or before any other forum unless the question of violation of the provisions of constitution is involved.10. ..... the proviso, which is important, says that if the electoral roll 'is not revised as aforesaid', the validity or continued operation of the 'said' electoral roll shall not be affected. ..... lastly, section 28 empowers the central government to make rules. .....

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Feb 12 2018 (HC)

Suresh Chand Gupta and Anr. Vs.archaeological Survey of India and Ors.

Court : Delhi

..... committee, shall be deemed to have been validly granted in accordance with the provisions of this act, as if ..... , during the period beginning on or after the 16th day of june, 1992 but ending before the date on which the ancient monuments and archaeological sites and remains (amendment and validation) bill, 2010, receives the assent of the president, as a prohibited area in respect of such protected monument, shall be deemed to be the prohibited area declared that protected monument in accordance with the provisions of this act and any permission or licence granted by the central government or the director-general, as the case may be, for the construction within the prohibited area on the basis of the recommendation of the expert advisory ..... it is also material to note that the court had not directed grant for any compensation, but only directed that the representation of the respondent therein be considered in accordance with law .....

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