Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 453 · Decided 14 July 2020
Arjun Panditrao Khotkar v. Kailash Kushanrao Gorantyal and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 453 · [2020] 7 S.C.R. 180
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 20825/2017
- Decided
- 14 July 2020
- Bench
- R.F. NARIMAN, S. RAVINDRA BHAT, V. RAMASUBRAMANIAN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 91, 207, 311; CPC; Evidence Act Section 3, 22A, 45A, 61, 39, 65B, 5, 60; Information Technology Act Section 2(i), 67C, 2(l); Representation of the People Act Section 100(1)(d)(i)
Headnote
Evidence Act, 1872 - ss.3, 22A, 45A, 61-65, 65A, 65B, 136 - Interpretation of s.65B - Electronic records - Admissibility of - Appellant's election challenged on the ground that his nomination papers having been filed after to have been rejected - Respondents relied on video camera recordings of the office of Returning Officer (RO) - Video recordings produced by Election Commission without requisite certificate u/s.65-B(4) - However, admitted in evidence by High Court, relying upon oral evidence
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