Supreme Court of India

Tek Chand v. Dile Ram

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Reported as [2001] 1 S.C.R. 527

Bench Dr. A.S. Anand, R.C. Lahoti and Shivaraj V. Patil JJ.

Decided 24 January 2001

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the election of the appellant-the returned candidate in so far it concerned him had not been materially affected.

Judgment, page 24

From the headnote

Election law: Representation of the People Act, 1951: S.IOO(l)(d). Election-Election petition-Void election-Declaration of-Grounds for-Nomination-Improper acceptance of-Returned candidate's election- Effect on-Election of returned candidate challenged on the ground that nomination of one N was improperly accepted since N was holding an office c of profit-Allegations that N was an activist of the defeated candidate's party; N cut into the votes of the defeated candidate; votes secured by N should have gone to .the defeated candidate-Correctness of-Held: There is no evidence that the voters

Authorities it was built on

1969 Samant N. Balakrishna Etc. v. George Fernandez and Ors. Etc. cited by 49
1983 Chhedi Ram v. Jhilmit Ram & Others cited by 9
1992 J. Chandrasekhara Rao v. V. Jagapathi Rao and Nine Others cited by 6
1999 Sri Uma Ballav Rath v. Sri Maheshwar Mohanty and Ors. cited by 5

Where later benches applied it

2026 Uco Bank v. Sk Shrivastava referred to
2018 State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors. v. Achal Singh referred to
2018 Madiraju Venkata Ramana Raju v. Peddireddigari Ramachandra Reddy & Ors. referred to
2017 Kameng Dolo v. Atumwelly referred to

Of those, 4 referred to

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