Supreme Court of India

Fulena Singh v. Vijay Kumar Sinha & Ors.

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Reported as [2009] 1 S.C.R. 748
Bench Lokeshwar Singh Panta and B. Sudershan Reddy JJ.
Decided 5 February 2009

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What the Court ordered

For the aforesaid reasons, we set aside the impugned order and remit the application filed by the first respondent/ election petitioner for the consideration of the trial court along with the election petition.

Judgment, page 7

From the headnote

Cqnduct of Election Rules, 1961 - r. 93(1)(dd) - c Application during pendency of election petition - For inspection of registers of voters in Form 17 - For substantiating the allegations made in the election petition - Allowed by trial court - On appeal, held: Inspection of election papers cannot be permitted for the purpose of making a roving inquiry in order to fish out materials and to derive ..... support for one's own case - Inspection allowed without assigning any reasons - Hence application remitted to trial court for consideration alongwith the main petition. Respondent filed

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