Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 320 · Decided 19 March 2020
Benedict Denis Kinny v. Tulip Brian Miranda & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 320 · [2020] 8 S.C.R. 1080
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1429/2020
- Decided
- 19 March 2020
- Bench
- ASHOK BHUSHAN, NAVIN SINHA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 226, 32
Headnote
Constitution of India - Art. 226 - Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, 1888 - s. 5B - In one civil appeal, the respondent and appellant contested the election on the seat of counsellor in Mumbai Municipal Corporation reserved for backward the 1888 Act required the candidate to submit caste validity certificate on the date of filing nomination paper - It is provided in the second proviso to s.5B that if a person fails to produce the validity certificate within a period of six months (now twelve months) from the date of
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