Supreme Court · 1969 INSC 179 · Decided 13 August 1969
Jitendra Bahadur Singh v. Krishna Behari & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1969 INSC 179 · [1970] 1 S.C.R. 852
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1483/1968
- Decided
- 13 August 1969
- Bench
- K.S. HEGDE, A.N. RAY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
BAHADUR SINGH v. KRISHNA BEHARI & ORS. August 13, 1969 [K. S. HEGDE A:-ID A. N. RAY, ]].] Election-Pe1ition for setting aside election-Application for scrutiny of bal/oi papers-When can be ordered. The first respondent, an elector, challenged the election of the appellant to the Lok Sabha. it was impossible 'for the counting agent to detect the wrong acts of the counting staff \\·ho had adopted an attilude hostile to the defeated candi- date; and (2) several votes of the defeated candidate were improperly re­ jected ignoring the protesls of the election agent cJf.
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