Supreme Court of India

Kodikunnil Suresh @ J. Monian v. N.S. Saji Kumar, Etc. Etc.

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Reported as [2011] 7 S.C.R. 640

Bench Altamas Kabir and A.K. Patnaik JJ.

Decided 12 May 2011

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From the headnote

Representation of People Act, 1951: s.100(1)(a) - Election of appellant to the House of People from the Mavelikkara Parliamentary Constituency reserved for the Scheduled Castes - Challenged on the ground that the appellant was a Christian and not a Scheduled Caste and therefore, not qualified to be chosen to fill a seat in the House of People u/s.4(a) of the Act - High Court declared his o election void u/s.100(1)(a) of the Act - On appeal, held: The father of the appellant originally was a member of the Cheramar caste which was admittedly a Scheduled Caste in the State of Kera/a - His father

Authorities it was built on

2007 Deshraj v. Bodhraj cited by 27
1954 Chatturbhuj Vithaldas Jasani v. Moreshwar Parashram and Others. cited by 25
1971 P. C. Purushothama Reddiar v. S. Perumal cited by 8
2010 M. Chandra v. M. Thangamuthu & Anr. cited by 7
2007 S. Nazeer Ahmed v. State Bank of Mysore and Ors. cited by 6
1983 Kailash Sonkar v. Smt. Maya Devi cited by 5
1983 S. Anbalagan v. B. Devarajan & Ors. cited by 5
1968 S. Rajagopal v. C. M. Armugam & Ors. cited by 4
1970 Perumal Nadar (dead) by L.rs. v. Ponnuswami cited by 3
1975 G.M. Arumugam v. S. Rajgopal & Others cited by 3
2005 Satrucharla Vijaya Rama Raju v. Nimmaka Jaya Raju and Ors. cited by 3

Where later benches applied it

2015 K.P. Manu v. Chairman, Scrutiny Committee for Verification of Community Certificate referred to

Of those, 1 referred to

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