Supreme Court · 1968 INSC 11 · Decided 19 January 1968
Laxman Siddappa Naik v. Kattimani Chaniappa Jamappanna & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1968 INSC 11 · [1968] 2 S.C.R. 805
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1303/1967
- Decided
- 19 January 1968
- Bench
- M. HIDAYATULLAH, S.M. SIKRI, K.S. HEGDE (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 332, 342; Representation of the People Act
Headnote
c D E F G H Constitution <Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950-Caste of candidature­ Burden of proof. An unsuccessful candidate for •olection to the Mysore Legislative· Assembly for a seat reserved for a member of the Schedul-:d l'ribes, filed an election petition on th·o ground not a tribe specified in Part YIU para 2 of the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950. The appellant-the succl.!ssful candidate, asserted that he was a Nayaka (which is mentioned at item No. 13 in Part VIII (2) of the Order) and Nayakas are also.called Bedars. The High Court held that
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