Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 76 · Decided 4 February 2014
Arikala Narasa Reddy v. Venkata Ram Reddy Reddygari & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 76 · [2014] 2 S.C.R. 291
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5710/2012
- Decided
- 4 February 2014
- Bench
- B.S. CHAUHAN, JASTI CHELAMESWAR, M.Y. EQBAL (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC; Evidence Act
Headnote
REPRESENTATION OF PEOPLE ACT, 1951: s.87 - Election petition - Applicability of Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 and Evidence Act, 1872 - Discussed. A B c ss.97, 100 - Election petition filed on the ground that 3 votes in favour of election petitioner were wrongly rejected and one Candidate ought to have been declared D invalid - Order for recounting of votes - Held: Election petition had raised dispute only about 4 votes and the case should have been restricted only to that limited question - High Court wrongly enlarged the 'scope of dispute by counting and recounting -
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)