Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 95 · Decided 28 January 2020
Chandeshwar Saw v. Brij Bhushan Prasad & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 95 · [2020] 1 S.C.R. 523
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 780/2020
- Decided
- 28 January 2020
- Bench
- A.M. KHANWILKAR, DINESH MAHESHWARI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 340
Headnote
Election Laws: Panchayat Election - Complaint against returned candidate, by the election petitioner - Alleging that despite objection, number of valid votes cast in his favour were being rejected and invalid votes in favour of returned candidate were accepted - The Tribunal declared his election as null and void and directed recounting of votes - In Writ Petition Single Judge of High court held that before recounting of votes, election of returned candidate should not have been set aside and relegated the parties to Tribunal for passing appropriate order
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