Supreme Court of India

Sri Mairembam Prithviraj @ Pr!thviraj Singh. v. Shri Pukhrem Sharatchandra Singh

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Reported as [2016] 9 S.C.R. 687

Bench Anil R. Dave and L. Nageswara Rao JJ.

Decided 28 October 2016

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Election Laws: Legislative Assembly election - Only two candidates contesting the election in the constituency - Election petition by the candidate who lost the election, challenging the election of returned candidate - Alleging false declaration as regards his educational qualification and improper acceptance of his nomination - Election petitioner also sought that he should be declared elected - High Court declared the election of the returned candidate as void - However, the High Court refused to declare the election petitioner as elected - Cross-appeal by the election petitioner and the

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
2001 Harishankar Jain v. Sonia Gandhi cited by 9
2013 Resurgence India v. Election Commission of India & Anr. cited by 8
1954 Vashit Narain Sharma v. Dev Chandra and Others cited by 7
2014 Kisan Shankar Kathore v. Arun Dattatray Sawant & Ors cited by 7
2012 Mangani Lal Mandal v. Bishnu Deo Bhandari cited by 6
2012 Shambhu Prasad Sharma v. Shri Charandas Mahant & Ors. cited by 4
1973 Durai Muthuswami v. N. Nachiappan & Ors. cited by 4
1997 T.deen Dayal v. The High Court of Andhra Pradesh cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2025 Poonam v. Dule Singh & Ors. referred to
2024 Karikho Kri v. Nuney Tayang and Another referred to
2023 Dasanglu Pul v. Lupalum Kri referred to
2023 Thangjam Arunkumar v. Yumkham Erabot Singh & Ors. referred to
2020 Arjun Panditrao Khotkar v. Kailash Kushanrao Gorantyal and Ors. referred to
2018 Madiraju Venkata Ramana Raju v. Peddireddigari Ramachandra Reddy & Ors. referred to

Of those, 6 referred to

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