Supreme Court of India

Laxmibai v. The Collector, Nanded & Ors.

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Reported as [2020] 2 S.C.R. 880
Bench A. M. Khanwilkar, Hemant Gupta and Dinesh Maheshwari JJ.
Decided 14 February 2020

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above, Civil Appeals arising out of Special Leave Petitions (Civil) Nos. 16837 of 2019 and 20814-20816 of 2019 are allowed in the abovementioned terms; whereas Civil Appeal arising out of Special Leave Petition (Diary No. 40018 of 2019) is dismissed.

Judgment, page 27

From the headnote

Maharashtra Village Panchayats Act, 1959: s.14B – Election of Gram Panchayat – Appellant elected as member of village Panchayat – Disqualification of appellant on accoun t of non- submission of election expenses within the period prescri bed – Held: perusal of s.14B shows that the State Election Commiss ion is to be satisfied as to whether a person has no good rea son or justification for the failure to furnish account of elec tion expenses – Secondly in terms of sub-section (2) for the reasons to be rec orded, the disqualification under sub-section (1) can be r emoved or the period of

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Of those, 2 referred to

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