Supreme Court of India

Puranlal Lakhanpal v. The President of India and Others

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Reported as [1962] 1 S.C.R. 688
Bench P.B. Gajendragadkar J.
Decided 30 March 1961

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Parliamentary Election-Seats allotted to J ammu and Kashmir -Mode of election-Modification made by President-Constitutiona­ lity-Constitution of India, Arts. Br, 37o(r)-Constitution (Appli­ cation to J ammu and Kashmir) Order, r954, Para. 5(c). Six seats are allotted to the State of Jammu and Kashmir in the House of People (Lok Sabha) and election to those seats should ordinarily have been by direct election under Art. 81(1) of the Constitution but the President modified that Article under Art. 37o(t) by Para. 5(c) of the Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order, 1954, to the

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