Supreme Court of India

Keisham Meghachandra Singh v. The Hon’ble Speaker Manipur Legislative Assembly & Ors.

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Reported as [2020] 2 S.C.R. 132

Bench R. F. Nariman, Aniruddha Bose and V . Ramasubramanian JJ.

Decided 21 January 2020

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that contours of interference have been well drawn by Kihoto Hollohan [1992 Supp (2) SCC 651 : AIR 1993 SC 412 : (1992) 1 SCR 686] and what is involved here is only its application.

Judgment, page 22

From the headnote

Constitution of India – Tenth Schedule – Disqualifi cation of a candidate nominated in Legislative Assembly elections on ground of defection – The election for the 11th Manipur Legislative Assembly was conducted in March, 2017 – None of the political parties we re able to secure a majority i.e. 31 seats in a Legislativ e Assembly of 60 seats in order to form the Government – The Cong ress Party emerged as the single largest party with 28 seats and BJP w ith 21 seats – The respondent no. 3 contested as a candida te nominated and set up by the Congress party and was duly elect ed – On

Authorities it was built on

1991 Kihoto Hollohan v. Zachillhu and Others cited by 59
2007 Sri Rajendra Singh Rana and Ors. v. Swami Prasad Maurya and Ors. cited by 9
2012 Speaker Haryana Vidhan Sabha v. Kuldeep Bishnoi & Ors. cited by 3

Where later benches applied it

2025 Padi Kaushik Reddy Etc. v. The State of Telangana and Others Etc. relied on
2025 The State of Tamil Nadu v. The Governor of Tamil Nadu & Anr. referred to
2023 Subhash Desai v. Principal Secretary, Governor of Maharashtra & Ors. mentioned

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to · 1 mentioned

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