Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 464 · Decided 9 May 2018
Pramod Laxman Gudadhe v. Election Commission of India and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 464 · [2018] 4 S.C.R. 397
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) No. 9968/2018
- Decided
- 9 May 2018
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, A.M. KHANWILKAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Representation of People Act, 1951 - s.151A - Interpretation of - Justifiability of holding bye-election - On resignation of elected representative of constituency in question, the petitioner, public spirited person filed PIL contending that if the of May 2018, the effective period which the new incumbent would get would be only upto March 2019 that is less than one year and therefore the new incumbent would not be in a position to function with all vigour and render service and there shall be huge expenditure in conducting the election
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)