Supreme Court · 1987 INSC 319 · Decided 10 November 1987
Election Commission of India v. Shivaji & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1987 INSC 319 · [1988] 1 S.C.R. 878
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2849/1987
- Decided
- 10 November 1987
- Bench
- E.S. VENKATARAMIAH, K.N. SINGH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 226, 329, 324; Representation of the People Act Section 16
Headnote
c Representation of the People Act, 1951-Whether High Court can entertain a petition questioning an election under Article 226 of the Constitution and rectify an error in the process of election before decla­ ration of result of election held under the provisions. The Governor of Maharashtra People Act, 1951 ('the Act') called upon six local authorities Consti­ tuencies in the State of Maharashtra to elect one member from each of the said constituencies to fill the vacancies in the Maharashtra Legisla- D tore Council, On the same day, the Election Commission oflndia, the
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