Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 992 · Decided 14 August 2025
Ajmera Shyam v. SMT. Kova Laxmi & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 992 · [2025] 8 S.C.R. 1789
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 13015/2024
- Decided
- 14 August 2025
- Bench
- SURYA KANT, N KOTISWAR SINGH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 19(1)(a); Representation of the People Act Section 100(1)(d)(i), 100(1)(b), 100(1)(d)(iv), 8, 9
Headnote
Issue arose whether the non-mentioning of the income shown in the income tax return for four financial years in the Form 26 Affidavit and its portrayal as "Nil" by the respondent no.1-returned candidate would amount to non-disclosure, thereby rendering the and making her election liable to be declared void u/s.100(1)(d)(i) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951; whether such non-disclosure constitutes a corrupt practice, rendering her election liable to be declared void u/s.100(1)(b); and does such non-disclosure amount to a violation of
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