Supreme Court of India

Kamal Nath v. Election Commission of India and Others

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Reported as [2018] 12 S.C.R. 842
Bench A. K. Sikri and Ashok Bhushan JJ.
Decided 12 October 2018

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered opinion that the same is not permissible and accordingly, the said prayer stands rejected.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

Election laws: Election Manual 2016 – Chapter XI – Clause 11.2.2.2 – Putting draft r oll on website – Petitioner seeking publishing/providing of soft copies of draft electoral r olls to political par ties in text format-sear chable PDF format – Held: Clause 11.2.2.2 of the Election Manual uses the expr ession ‘text mode’ – Draft electoral roll in the text mode, supplied to the petitioner fulfills the requirement contained in the Election Manual – Clause nowher e says that the draft electoral roll has to be put up on the Chief Electoral Officer’s website in a ‘sear chable PDF’ – Ther efore,

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

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