Supreme Court of India

J & K National Panthers Party v. The Union of India and Others

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Reported as [2010] 13 S.C.R. 506
Bench G.S. Singhvi and Asok Kumar Ganguly JJ.
Decided 9 November 2010

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that a right to caste vote is a valuable right but to demand eny uniform value of one's voting right through the process of delimitation, disregarding the statutory and constitutional dispensation based on historical reasons is not B a justiciable right.

Judgment, page 13

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Election laws: c Jammu and Kashmir Representation of the People Act, 1957 - s. 3 - Constitution of delimitation Commission - Postponement of delimitation of territorial constituencies of the State pertaining to the Legislative Assembly until publishing of the relevant figures for the first census taken after the year 0 2026 - Sustainability of - Held: Right to cast vote is a valuable right but to demand any uniform value of one's voting right through the process of delimitation, disregarding the statutory and constitutional dispensation based on historical reasons is not a justiciable right -

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