Supreme Court of India

S. Rukmini Madegowda v. The State Election Commission & Ors

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Reported as [2022] 12 S.C.R. 1

Bench Uday Umesh Lalit, Indira Banerjee and Ajay Rastogi JJ.

Decided 14 September 2022

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Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976 – ss.27, 33- 35, 39 – Karnataka Municipal Corporation (Election) Rul es, 1979 – Representation of People Act, 1951 – s.123(2) – onduct of Elections Rules, 1961 – Election Petition filed by re spondent no.4 was allowed, election of the appellant to the Mysor e Municipal Corporation as Councillor was set aside – On appeal, held: false declaration w.r.t the assets of a candidate, his/he r spouse or dependents, constitutes corrupt practice irrespective of the impact of such a false declaration on the election of the cand idate – It is undisputed that the

Authorities it was built on

2002 Union of India v. Association for Democratic Reforms and Anr. cited by 34
2015 Krishnamoorthy v. Sivakumar & Ors. cited by 13
1982 Jyoti Basu & Others. v. Debi Ghosal & Others. cited by 11
2003 Bipin Chandra Parshottamdas Patel (vakil) v. State of Gujarat and Ors. cited by 4
2018 Lok Prahari, through its General Secretary S. N. Shukla v. Union of India & Others Writ Petition (c) No. 784 of 2015 February 16, 2018 cited by 4
2006 Shrikant v. Vasantrao and Ors. cited by 4
2016 State Bank of India v. Santosh Gupta and Anr. Etc. cited by 4
2018 Shailesh Manubhai Parmar v. Election Commission of India through the Chief Election Commissioner & Ors. cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2024 Karikho Kri v. Nuney Tayang and Another referred to
2025 Ajmera Shyam v. Smt. Kova Laxmi & Ors. mentioned

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