Supreme Court of India

Senthibalaji V v. A.P. Geetha and Ors

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Reported as [2023] 6 S.C.R. 546
Bench Abhay S. Oka and Rajesh Bindal JJ.
Decided 19 May 2023

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What the Court ordered

Accordingly, we set aside the impugned judgment of the High Court and allow the applications filed by the appellant for reject ion of the petition and/or for deletion of irrelevant paragraphs.

Judgment, page 17

From the headnote

Representation of the People Act, 1951 – ss.83, 123 – Failur e to plead material facts in the election petition conc erning alleged corrupt practice – Held: s.123 defines corrupt practices – s.83(1)(a) mandates that an election petition must contain a concise state ment of material facts – When the allegation is of corrup t practice, the basic facts constituting corrupt practice must be ple aded in order to comply with s.83(1)(a) – In the present case, such conci se facts were not at all pleaded – Basic facts cannot be ple aded only by stating that the same find place in the documents r elied

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