Supreme Court of India

Mangal Singh & Anr. v. Union of India

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Reported as [1967] 2 S.C.R. 109
Bench K. Subba Rao J.
Decided 17 November 1966

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that no discrimination by unseating members from the Haryana area can be deemod to be practised against the appellants of which they can eomplain.

Judgment, page 6

From the headnote

Constitution of India, Arts. 4, 170(1)-State Legislative Assembly­ Minimum membership prescribed-Reduction if violates Art. 170(1)­ Legislative Council-Unseating of nv.nnbers elected from area con.rtituted having unicameral Legislature. Punjab Reorganisation Act (31 of 1966), ss. 13, 20 and 22-Validity. The Punjab Reorganisation Act. 1966, carved out of the old State of Punjab two new States, Punjab and Haryana, transferred some areas. to Himachal Pradesh and constituted Chandigarh, a territory of the old State, into a Union territory. The old State had a bi-<:ameral Legislature and so also

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 referred to

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