Supreme Court of India

Kihoto Hollohan v. Zachillhu and Others

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Decided 18 February 1992

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By the Constitution (Fifty-Second Amendment) Act, 1985 (popularly known as the Anti-defection law) the Tenth Schedule was inserted in the constitution of India providing for disqualification of a Member of either House of Parliament or of a State Legislature found to have defected from continuing as a Member of the House. Paragraph 2 of the Tenth Schedule states that a Member of a House would incur disqualification if he voluntarily gives up his membership of the party by which he was set up as a candidate at the election, or if he without obtaining prior permission of the political party to…

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