Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 970 · Decided 5 May 2014
Ashok Shankarrao Chavan v. DR. Madhavrao Kinhalkar & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 970 · [2014] 14 S.C.R. 1227
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5044/2014
- Decided
- 5 May 2014
- Bench
- S.S. NIJJAR, F.M. IBRAHIM KALIFULLA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 192(2); Representation of the People Act
Headnote
Representation of the People Act, 1951: • s. 1 OA - Election expenses - Power of Election Commission to hold an enquiry to ascertain the correctness A B c or otherwise of the election expenses incurred by a returned candidate for the purpose of passing the order Election Commission has got every 0 jurisdiction to enquire into the complaint made before it as regards the incorrect and untrue statement of accounts of election expenses lodged by the candidate - After such enquiry, as he thinks fit, on being satisfied that no justification was shown for the
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