Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 573 · Decided 11 December 2012
Purno Agitok Sangma v. Pranab Mukherjee
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 573 · [2012] 11 S.C.R. 585
- Case number
- ELECTION PETITION (CIVIL) No. 1/2012
- Decided
- 11 December 2012
- Bench
- ALTAMAS KABIR, P. SATHASIVAM, S.S. NIJJAR, JASTI CHELAMESWAR, RANJAN GOGOI (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Election
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 141; Constitution Article 102(1)(a), 71, 58(2)
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1950: A B c Art. 58(2) - Qualifications for election as President of India - Expression 'office of profit' - Connotation of - Respondent holding office of Chairman of Council of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata In order to D be an office of profit, the office must carry pecuniary benefits or must be capable of yielding pecuniary benefits, which is not so in respect of Chairman, /SI - It was not such a post, which was capable of yielding any profit so as to make it, in fact, an office of profit-
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