Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 710 · Decided 18 December 2020
Pradeep Kumar Sonthalia v. Dhiraj Prasad Sahu @ Dhiraj Sahu & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 710 · [2020] 14 S.C.R. 480
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 611/2020
- Decided
- 18 December 2020
- Bench
- S.A. BOBDE, A.S. BOPANNA, V. RAMASUBRAMANIAN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 191, 193, 190, 188, 80(4), 191(1)(e), 190(3); Representation of the People Act Section 8, 152, 8(3)
Headnote
Constitution of India - Arts.191, 193, 190, 188 and 80(4) - Biennial elections for two seats in the Council of States from the State of Jharkhand - Appellant and two others filed nominations - An elected member of the Assembly at 9.15 a.m on 23.03.18 in favour of one of the winning candidate - He was convicted and sentenced in a criminal case in the afternoon of the same day - Suffered disqualification u/Art.191(1)(e) r/w s.8(3), 1951 Act - Appellant secured 2599 value of votes, and the other two
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