Supreme Court · 1979 INSC 98 · Decided 3 May 1979
Janardan Dattuappa Bondre, ETC. v. Govindprasad Shivprasad Choudhary & ORS. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1979 INSC 98 · [1979] 3 S.C.R. 897
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1936/1978
- Decided
- 3 May 1979
- Bench
- V.R. KRISHNA IYER, R.S. PATHAK (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Representation of the People Act Section 97
Headnote
RepreS<11tation of the People Act 1951 (43 of 1951)-S. 97-Notice of r<­ crimination wllen neces,sary-Every order of recount does not bring the section into play. The appellant was declared elected to the State Assembly in the General Election in 1978. He secured 27785 votes. The fifth votes. The election of the appellant was questioned by an election petition filed in the High Court by a voter, the first respondent. Having regard to the allegations made in respect of a number of ballot papers, A B c the High Court allo\ved fresh scrutiny and recount of the votes, and entrll5ted
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