Supreme Court · 1958 INSC 62 · Decided 20 May 1958
Bishan Singh & Others v. Khazan Singh & Another
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1958 INSC 62 · [1959] 1 S.C.R. 878
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 255/1954
- Decided
- 20 May 1958
- Bench
- SUDHI RANJAN DAS, NATWARLAL HARILAL BHAGWATI, S.K. DAS, K. SUBBA RAO (4-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
COURT REPORTS [1959] Adityan v. J(andaswanii such candidature. Hence, he said, s. 82{b) required that they should have been made parties to the peti­ tion. W' e are of opinion that when s. 82(b) talks of allegations of corrupt practice against a candidate it means allegations that a that the candidate was guilty of corrupt practice. vVe are also unable to appreciate how an allegation that a candidate accepted a grati­ fication paid to him to withdraw his candidature is an allegation relating to a corrupt practice. The accept­ ance of the gratification does not
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