Supreme Court · 1968 INSC 8 · Decided 15 January 1968
Hira Singh Pal v. Madan Lal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1968 INSC 8 · [1968] 2 S.C.R. 778
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1112/1967
- Decided
- 15 January 1968
- Bench
- M. HIDAYATULLAH, K.S. HEGDE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Repreurrtatwrr of the People Act. 1951, s.•. 36 and JOO-Clerical mu­ uzJ.e in nomination pcpers-Duty of Returning Officer-NomituJtion ,aper• must not be lightly re;ected even in the case of dummy candidate ~Election to be set a.Ide if papers of such a candidate wrongly rejected. The in the 1967 general election. Both bis nomination papers were rejected at the scrutiny. 1l>e first nomination paper was rejected on the ground that the proposer's name wa< wrongly mentioned as being at serial No. 380 of Pan 13 of the l!lectoral Roll of the constituency whereas it was
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