Supreme Court · 1976 INSC 158 · Decided 26 July 1976
Jugal Kishore Patnaik v. Ratnakar Mohanty
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1976 INSC 158 · [1977] 1 S.C.R. 49
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 910/1970
- Decided
- 26 July 1976
- Bench
- HANS RAJ KHANNA, V.R. KRISHNA IYER, N.L. UNTWALIA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Representation of the People Act Section 9A, 81, 82, 83, 33, 34
Headnote
Representation of.the People Act, 1951-S. 9A-Contract signed as President, Gram Panchayat-Rejection of nomination paper-If vdid-lmproper rejec'­ tion-lf Courts could give relief under s. 100(1) (o). On the ground that there were subsisting contracts between him and the . State Government for general election to the State Assembly were r10jected by the Returning Officer under s. 9A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 at the instance of one of the contesting candidates. In the election that ensued the appellant was declared elected. The respondent in his election petition
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