Supreme Court · 1981 INSC 80 · Decided 2 April 1981
Atma Singh & ORS. v. State of Punjab & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1981 INSC 80 · [1981] 3 S.C.R. 340
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1958/1980
- Decided
- 2 April 1981
- Bench
- Y.V. CHANDRACHUD, A.P. SEN, V. BALAKRISHNA ERADI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Punjab Municipal Act, 1911, read with Election Rules, 1952 and Delimitation of Wards of Municipalities Rules, 1972-State Government notifies inclusion of certain local areas within the limits of Sunam Municipality under sub-section (3) of section 5 of the Act-Operation of the notification stayed Government without reconstituting the Municipality into new wards held elections on the basis of the old municipal limits in view of the obliga­ tory proviso to sub-section (3) of section 13 of the Act inserted by Punjab Act IO of 1978 as amended by Punjab Act 2 of 1979-Propriety of the
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