Supreme Court of India

Kapil Muni Karwariya v. Chandra Narain Tripathi

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Reported as [2012] 1 S.C.R. 956
Bench Altamas Kabir and Surinder Singh Nijjar JJ.
Decided 15 February 2012

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that making any observations in this proceedings would certainly have an effect on the pending proceedings before the Election Tribunal.

Judgment, page 9

From the headnote

Representation of the People Act, 1951: ss.81, 86 - Election petition - Maintainability of - Election petition challenging the election of returning candidate on the ground that nomination papers of respondent were wrongly rejected by the returning officer - The ground of rejection of nomination papers was that the name of the second proposer was deleted from the electoral roll and, therefore, nomination was not subscribed by ten proposers as required u/s.33 - Returning candidate filed applications for dismissing election petition for non-compliance of s.81(1) and for non-disclosure of cause

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