Supreme Court · 1975 INSC 16 · Decided 24 January 1975
Baldev Singh v. Teja Singh Swatantar (Dead) & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1975 INSC 16 · [1975] 3 S.C.R. 381
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 233/1973
- Decided
- 24 January 1975
- Bench
- A. ALAGIRISWAMI, V.R. KRISHNA IYER, R.S. SARKARIA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Election-Conduct of Election Rules, r. 63-Returning Officers duty to re· count, when arises-Power of Court to order recoum-Scope of. . For a Parliamentary seat in the State of Punjab the appellant, a candidate of the Akali Dal, and the first respondent, the nominee of the Communist Party of The total number of votes polled were 344073 out of which 7663 were invalidated. The first respondent was de· clarecf elected by a margin of 210 votes. Even at the time the counting was com· pleted the appellant applied to the Returning Officer for a recount but the applica­
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