Supreme Court of India

Bhanumati Etc. Etc. v. State of Uttar Pradesh through its Principal Secretary and Others

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Reported as [2010] 7 S.C.R. 585

Bench G.S. Singhvi and Asok Kumar Ganguly JJ.

Decided 4 May 2010

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What the Court ordered

For the reasons aforesaid this Court upholds the Constitutional validity of the U.P. Panchayat Laws (Amendment) Act, 2007 (U.P. Act 44 of 2007) and the appeals are 8 dismissed.

Judgment, page 39

From the headnote

UP. Panchayat Laws (Amendment) Act, 2007 - ss. 15 and 28 - Challenge to - On the ground of incorporation of the concept of no-confidence motion as regard the office of Chairperson of Panchayat in the statute - Substitution of the provision 'more than half' in place of 'not less than two thirds' relating to majority for moving no-confidence motion and block period of 'one year' for initiation of no-confidence motion in place of 'two years' - Held: The 2007 Act is constitutionally valid - Provision of no-confidence is not inconsistent with Part IX of the Constitution - Statutory provision of

Authorities it was built on

1955 .hans Muller of Nurenburg v. Superintendent, Presidency Jail, Calcutta and Others. cited by 11

Where later benches applied it

2021 Sau. Sangeeta W/o Sunil Shinde v. The State of Maharashtra and Ors. relied on
2020 Union of India & Ors. v. Exide Industries Limited & Anr. relied on
2014 Usha Bharti v. State of U.P. & Ors. relied on
2023 Anoop Baranwal v. Union of India referred to
2021 Rajeev Suri v. Delhi Development Authority & Ors referred to
2019 Seema Sarkar v. Executive Officer and Ors. referred to
2018 Kiran Pal Singh v. The State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors. referred to
2014 Manoj Narula v. Union of India referred to

Of those, 3 relied on · 5 referred to

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