Supreme Court of India

N. T. Veluswami Thevar v. G. Raja Nainar and Others

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Reported as [1959] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 623
Bench T.L. Venkatarama Aiyyar J.
Decided 24 November 1958

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What the Court ordered

In the result, we allow the appeals, set a.side the orders of the court below, and dismiss the writ peti­ tions filed by the respondent, with costs here a.nd in the court below.

Judgment, page 16

From the headnote

Election Dispute-Rejection of Nomination paper by Returning Officer-Validity of rejection raised before Election petition­ ] urisdiction of Tribunal to entertain grounds of disqualification not raised before Returning Officer-" Improperly rejected", meaning of -Representation of the People Act, r95r (43 of r95r), ss. 7, 36(2), roo(r)(c), roo(r)(d)(i). The nomination paper of the fourth respondent who was one of the candidates for election to the Legislative Assembly of the State, was rejected by the returning officer on the ground that as he was the Headmaster of a Government-aided school he

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