Supreme Court · 1961 INSC 126 · Decided 30 March 1961
Puranlal Lakhanpal v. The President of India and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1961 INSC 126 · [1962] 1 S.C.R. 688
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 139/1957
- Decided
- 30 March 1961
- Bench
- P.B. GAJENDRAGADKAR, A.K. SARKAR, K.N. WANCHOO, K.C. DAS GUPTA, N. RAJAGOPALA AYYANGAR (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 81(1), 32, 370(1)
Headnote
688 SUPREME COURT REPORTS [1962] PURANLAL LAKHANP AL v. THE PRESIDENT OF INDIA AND OTHERS (P. B. GAJENDRAGADKAR, A. K. SARKAR, K. N. WANCHOO, K. C. DAS GUPTA and N. RAJAGOPALA AYYANGAR, JJ.) Parliamentary Election-Seats allotted to J ammu and Kashmir -Mode of election-Modification made by and Kashmir in the House of People (Lok Sabha) and election to those seats should ordinarily have been by direct election under Art. 81(1) of the Constitution but the President modified that Article under Art. 37o(t) by Para. 5(c) of the Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order,
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