Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 302 · Decided 27 March 2023
Lok Prahari v. Union of India & Ors
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 302 · [2023] 7 S.C.R. 357
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 1141/2020
- Decided
- 27 March 2023
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA, J.B. PARDIWALA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 32; Registration Act; Representation of the People Act Section 59, 94, 128(1), 123, 33
Headnote
Conduct of Election Rules, 1961 - Rule 39-AA - Representation of the People Act, 1951 - ss. 59, 94 and 128(1), amended by Act of 2003 - Challenge to r. 39-AA - Petitioner has challenged the constitutional validity of rule 39-AA on the ground that the said Art.14 of the Constitution and is also contrary to s.123 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 - Held: The Constitution Bench in Kuldip Nayar v. Union of India held that after the amendment, voting to the Council of States has undergone a material change and that the norm of
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