Supreme Court · 1954 INSC 112 · Decided 25 November 1954
P. Joseph John v. The State of TRAVANCORE-COCHIN.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1954 INSC 112 · [1955] 1 S.C.R. 1011
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 90/1953
- Decided
- 25 November 1954
- Bench
- MEHR CHAND MAHAJAN, BIJAN KUMAR MUKHERJEA, SUDHI RANJAN DAS, VIVIAN BOSE, NATWARLAL HARILAL BHAGWATI, B. JAGANNADHADAS, T.L. VENKATARAMA AIYYAR (7-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 166, 311, 320, 132(1)
Headnote
SUPREME COURT REPORTS 1011 to stand as a candidate for election he shall not either be employed as a paid legal practitioner on behalf of the municipality or act as a legal practitioner against the Municipality. There is no fundamental right in any person to stand as a candidate for election right in prescribing the disqualification of the type enacted in section 16(1) (ix) of the Act. If he wants to stand as a candidate for election it is but proper that he should divest himself of his paid brief on behalf of the Municipality or the brief against the Municipality in which event
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