Supreme Court of India

S.B. Adityan v. S. Kandaswami and Others

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Reported as [1959] 1 S.C.R. 868
Bench P.B. Gajendragadkar, A.K. Sarkar and K. Subba Rao JJ.
Decided 20 May 1958

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What the Court ordered

In the result this appeal fails and it is dismissed with costs.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Election Peli tion- ormpt practice-Bribery-Acceptance of gratification, if cori·upt practice of bribery-Representation of the People Act, I95I (43 of r95r), ss. 82, 90(3) and I23. After the poll the appellant was declared elected to the Madras Legislative Assembly. Respondent No. l filed an elec­ tion petition praying that it be declared that the election of the appellant was void. In.the petition it was alleged that two of the candidates at the election accepted money paid to them by the appellant and his election agent to induce them to abandon the contest and they actually abandoned the

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