Supreme Court · 1970 INSC 184 · Decided 10 September 1970
Magraj Patodia v. R. K. Birla and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1970 INSC 184 · [1971] 2 S.C.R. 118
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1094/1969
- Decided
- 10 September 1970
- Bench
- K.S. HEGDE, A.N. GROVER (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Representation of the People Act Section 77, 123(b), 123(6), 81
Headnote
Representation of the People Act, 1951, ss. 77, 123(b) ands. 119- Expenditure in excess of prescribed lilnit by candidate's party or friends an(.1 others H'ithout his authority-If. contra),•endon of s. 77-J/ appellate cou.~r bound to grant costs to SitCcessful party. A B Election drawn in absence of direct evidence. The appellant challenged the first respondent's election to the Lok Sabha in 1967 mainly on the ground that he had committed the corrupt practice under Section 123(6) of the Representation of the People Act. 1951, in that he ~ad incµrred or authorised
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