Supreme Court · 1966 INSC 251 · Decided 17 November 1966
Mangal Singh & ANR. v. Union of India
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1966 INSC 251 · [1967] 2 S.C.R. 109
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2314/1966
- Decided
- 17 November 1966
- Bench
- K. SUBBA RAO, J.C. SHAH, S.M. SIKRI, V. RAMASWAMI, C.A. VAIDYIALINGAM (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 4, 170(1)
Headnote
Constitution of India, Arts. 4, 170(1)-State Legislative Assembly­ Minimum membership prescribed-Reduction if violates Art. 170(1)­ Legislative Council-Unseating of nv.nnbers elected from area con.rtituted having unicameral Legislature. Punjab Reorganisation Act (31 of 1966), ss. 13, 20 Reorganisation Act. 1966, carved out of the old State of Punjab two new States, Punjab and Haryana, transferred some areas. to Himachal Pradesh and constituted Chandigarh, a territory of the old State, into a Union territory. The old State had a bi-<:ameral Legislature and so also has the new
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