Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 859 · Decided 5 August 2019
Nitin Bandopant Salagre v. The State Election Commission & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 859 · [2019] 10 S.C.R. 1121
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5855/2019
- Decided
- 5 August 2019
- Bench
- ASHOK BHUSHAN, NAVIN SINHA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, 1888 - ss. 9, 33 and 34 - Filling of casual vacancy - General election for electing Councillor for Bombay Municipal Corporation was conducted and one candidate was declared successful for the seat reserved for backward class of citizens - A candidate on the ground that she had wrongly claimed to be a member of backward class citizen - The District Caste certificate scrutiny committee invalidated the caste certificate of the said candidate - Consequently, the said candidate was disqualified by the Corporation
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