Supreme Court · 1983 INSC 165 · Decided 28 October 1983
DR. P. Nalla Thampy THERA. v. B.L. Shanker & Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1983 INSC 165 · [1984] 1 S.C.R. 687
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2922/1981
- Decided
- 28 October 1983
- Bench
- P.N. BHAGWATI, AMARENDRA NATH SEN, RANGANATH MISRA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Representation of the People Act Section 87, 109(1)
Headnote
Representation of the People Act 1951 Sections 87 & 109 (1) .687 Election Petition-Trial of-Applicability of the provisions of the Code of . Civil Procedure-When ariset. Omission of a prayer from an election petition-Whether amounts to wlth­ drawai of an election petition . . election petit fon-Whrther election peJition • could be dismissed-Restoraiion of a dismisse_d el~ction petition-Whether coufd be at the instance of an_y person <Jilter than the election petition. · Code of Civil Procedure 1908 Orda IX Rule 9 Election Petition dismi~sed for
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