Supreme Court · 1998 INSC 208 · Decided 29 April 1998
Dattatraya Maruti Bawalekar and ORS. v. Pandurang Dagadu Parte
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1998 INSC 208 · [1998] 3 S.C.R. 55
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3294/1997
- Decided
- 29 April 1998
- Bench
- S.C. AGRAWAL, S. RAJENDRA BABU (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
B Maharashtra Local Authority Members Disqualification Act, 1986- Section 3(1) and 3(2)-Elected Members of Council-Disqualification of­ Nine independent elected members out of total of seventeen form themselves into a front-Members incur disqualification on joining political party after C a person who is elected as an independent-Held: independent councillor joining political party after election or formation of new front would attract disqualification from being a councillor. The appellants contested as independent candidates for the post of D Municipal Councillors. At the time
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