Supreme Court · 2003 INSC 400 · Decided 19 August 2003
Punit Rai v. Dinesh Chaudhary
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2003 INSC 400 · [2003] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 743
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 659/2003
- Decided
- 19 August 2003
- Bench
- V.N. KHARE, BRIJESH KUMAR, S.B. SINHA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Evidence Act Section 114(g); Constitution
Headnote
B Election Laws: State Assembly Election-Reserved Constituency-Returned candidate- C Challenged on the ground that the returned candidate not belonging to Scheduled Caste-Dismissed by the High Court-On appeal, Held: Returning Officer entertaining grave doubt about the caste of the respondent and regarding second marriage of his father with his mother, a Scheduled Caste woman, was within his special D knowledge yet he failed to produce his parents as his witnesses-It is not appropriate to act upon statement of other witnesses-Adverse inference could be drawn against the
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