Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 862 · Decided 8 December 2010
Election Commission of India v. Telangana Rastra Samithi & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 862 · [2010] 14 S.C.R. 496
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 10244/2010
- Decided
- 8 December 2010
- Bench
- ALTAMAS KABIR, A.K. PATNAIK (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 190, 190(3)(b); Representation of the People Act Section 151A, 190(3)(b)
Headnote
Election Laws- State Legislative Assembly - Resignation of members - Election Commission withholding bye-election C in two constituencies due to pendency of election petition - Decision of Election Commission challenged - Supreme Court holding that Election Commission rightly withheld constituencies- On the day of the judgment, the Court was apprised that election in the two constituencies D already held - Clarified that the appeal was confined to interpretation of s. 151A of Representation of the People Act rlw Article 190(3 }(b) of the Constitution - The decision therein
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