Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 394 · Decided 13 May 2014
Balram Singh Yadav@ Balram Yadav v. Abhay Kumar Singh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 394 · [2014] 7 S.C.R. 532
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 888/2009
- Decided
- 13 May 2014
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, N.V. RAMANA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Representation of People Act, 1951 - Section 33(5) - Compliance of - Rejection of nomination paper - For non- e filing of current electoral roll which was required since the candidate belonged to another constituency - Held: Is not a case of improper rejection - Current electoral roll is to filed otherwise it would tantamount to non-compliance of s. 33(5) of the Act - Once D the court comes to the· conclusion that the nomination paper had been improperly rejected, it is obliged in law to declare the election void - Thus, on facts, High Court not justified in holding that the
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