Supreme Court of India
Virender Nath Gautam v. Satpal Singh and Ors.
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What the Court ordered
For the foregoing reasons, the appeal deserves to be allowed and is, accordingly, allowed with costs.
Judgment, page 20
From the headnote
Representation of the People Act, 1951 Section 83(1 )(a)-Election Petition-Contents of-Material facts pleaded as required by Section 83 (I) of Act read with Order VJJ, Rule 1 l(a) of Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 and cause of action disclosed-Held-At stage of consideration maintainability of such a petition cannot be dismissed by considering correctness of allegations and evidence in support of avetments by entering into merits of case which is permissible only at stage of trial of petition. Section 83(1)(a)-Election Petition-Contents of-Disclosure of material facts-Allegation of double
Where later benches applied it
- 2012 Ponnala Lakshmalah v. Kommuri Pratap Reddy & Ors.
- 2012 Jitu Patnaik v. Sanatan Mohakud & Ors.
- 2025 A. Raja v. D. Kumar
- 2018 Madiraju Venkata Ramana Raju v. Peddireddigari Ramachandra Reddy & Ors.
- 2017 Kameng Dolo v. Atumwelly
- 2017 Kuldeep Singh Pathania v. Bikram Singh Jaryal
- 2016 Navjot Singh Sidhu v. Om Parkash Soni & Ors.
- 2012 Ashok v. Rajendra Bhausaheb Mulak
Of those, 2 relied on · 6 referred to
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