Supreme Court of India

Sardar Gurmej Singh v. Sardar Partap Singh Kairon

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Reported as [1960] 1 S.C.R. 909
Bench Sudhi Ranjan Das J.
Decided 30 September 1959

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What the Court ordered

Before parting with this case, we must express our feeling that the final disposal of the election petition should not have been delayed so long.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

Election Petition-Appointment of Lambardar as polling and counting agent-Whether amounts to corrupt practice-Lambardar, if a village accountant-Representation of the People Act, r95r (43 of I95I), S. I2J (7)(f). The respondent was declared elected to the Punjab Legisla­ tive Assembly from the Sarhali constituency. The appellant who was one of the contesting candidates, filed an election petition for a declaration that the election of the respondent was void inter alia on the ·ground that he had appointed a number of lambardars as his polling and counting agents and had thus committed a

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 3 mentioned

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