Supreme Court of India

Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam & Anr. v. The Election Commission of India

Neutral citation

Reported as [2012] 3 S.C.R. 1084

Bench Altamas Kabir, Surinder Singh Nijjar and J. Chelameswar JJ.

Decided 18 April 2012

INSC stands for INDIAN SUPREME COURT. A neutral citation scheme assigned by the Court itself, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter. INSC is the neutral citation scheme assigned by the Supreme Court, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter.

2 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

From the headnote

Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, c 1968: Clauses 6A and 68 as inserted by Notification No. 56 dated 1.12.2000 - Political parties - Reservation/allocation of symbols - Criterion for recognition of political parties at 0 State level and National level - Constitutional validity of - Held: Per majority (Chelameswar, J - dissenting): In addition torr. 5 and 10 of Conduct of Election Rules, the powers vested in the Election Commission can be traced to Art. 324 of the Constitution - The Election Commission has set down a bench-mark which is not unreasonable - In order to gain

Authorities it was built on

2002 Union of India v. Association for Democratic Reforms and Anr. cited by 34
2003 People's Union for Civil Liberties (pucl) and Anr. v. Union of India and Anr. cited by 33
2006 Kuldip Nayar v. Union of India and Ors. cited by 30
1954 Budhan Choudhry and Others v. The State of Bihar cited by 21
1959 Dr. B. K. Pal Chaudhry v. The State Oe Assam cited by 20
1961 Sakal Papers (p) Ltd., and Others v. The Union of India cited by 10
1985 Kanhiyalal Omar v. R.K. Trivedi & Ors. cited by 7
1971 Sadiq Ali and Anr. Etc. v. Election Commission of India and Others Etc. cited by 4
1982 Roop Lal Singh v. Nachhattar Singh cited by 4
2009 M/s Kanhiya Singh Santok Singh & Ors. v. Kartar Singh cited by 3
2008 The Apsrtc, Rep. by its General Manager and Anr. v. M. Ramadevi and Ors. cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2015 Rajbala & Others v. State of Haryana & Others relied on
2023 Anoop Baranwal v. Union of India referred to

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to

Sign in free to read it

The full judgment, page by page, as published in the Supreme Court Reports
The ratio: what the Court held, verbatim, with the page it sits on
Every bench that relied on it, and every bench that argued against it
Search every reported judgment, by party, citation or question
Download the PDF, copy pinpoint citations ready for a filing

An email address, no password.