Supreme Court of India

New Bank of India Employees Union v. U O I

Diary number
Neutral citation Not assigned by the Court
How to cite
Bench Ramaswamy J.
Decided 23 April 1996

INSC stands for INDIAN SUPREME COURT. A neutral citation scheme assigned by the Court itself, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter. INSC is the neutral citation scheme assigned by the Supreme Court, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter.

What the Court ordered

We hold that there is no warrant for finding that the appellant belongs to Scheduled Castes entitling him to contest the election as a Scheduled Caste Candidate.

Judgment, page 2

From the headnote

JUDGMENT: O R R This appeal under Section 116- of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (for short, the ’Act’) arises from the judgment of the High Court of Karnataka made on October 27, 1994 in Election Petition No.3 of 1991. The appellant had filed his nomination as a Scheduled Caste candidate to the Bidar-1 (SC) Parliamentary Constituency for the 9th Lok Sabha on April 26, 1991. It was rejected by the Returning Officer by his proceedings dated April 27, 1991 finding that he is a Verrashiva Jangamma and that, therefore, he is not a Beda Jangamma, which is item 19 of the Presidential…

Sign in free to read it

  • The full judgment, page by page, as published in the Supreme Court Reports
  • The ratio: what the Court held, verbatim, with the page it sits on
  • Every bench that relied on it, and every bench that argued against it
  • Search every reported judgment, by party, citation or question
  • Download the PDF, copy pinpoint citations ready for a filing
Sign in to read - for free

An email address, no password.