Supreme Court · 1997 INSC 774 · Decided 1 December 1997
Ashwini Kumar Sharma v. Yaduvansh Singh and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1997 INSC 774 · [1997] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 616
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1702/1997
- Decided
- 1 December 1997
- Bench
- SUJATA V. MANOHAR, M. JAGANNADHA RAO (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 6; Representation of the People Act Section 83
Headnote
Representation of the People Act, 1951-Section 83 (!)(a); Section JOO (!) (d) (iii)-Election Petition-Maintainability of-A,llegation of Irregularities and illegalities in the counting of votes-High Court dismissed C the petition on the ground that the petition did not disclose a complete cause of Held, Election Petition maintainable-The relevant provision in the present case is Section 83(J)(a) which requires the petition to contain only a concise statement of material facts on which the petitioner relies unlike D under section 83(/)(b) where it is necessmy to set out full
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