Supreme Court · 1966 INSC 165 · Decided 14 September 1966
Har Swarup & Another v. Brij Bhushan Saran & Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1966 INSC 165 · [1967] 1 S.C.R. 342
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1141/1965
- Decided
- 14 September 1966
- Bench
- K.N. WANCHOO, J.M. SHELAT, G.K. MITTER (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
R•presentatio11 of the People Act, 1951-s. 82(b)-"any 01/ier cand1- .date'"-meaning oj--candidate after wlthdrawal under s. 37 conunitting . corrupt practice-whether necessary party to a petition. B and R were two candidates of the same party for election ro the U.P. Legislative eventually elected 1.o the .Assembly. After his election, a petition was tiled by two elector\ seeking to set actick: his election on the g,rouod inter alia that a corrupt practice was committed during the election in that R, after he had with­ drawn bis candidature, had threatened ao
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