Supreme Court · 1979 INSC 172 · Decided 6 September 1979
R. Narayanan v. S. Semmalai and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1979 INSC 172 · [1980] 1 S.C.R. 571
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 524/1978
- Decided
- 6 September 1979
- Bench
- S. MURTAZA FAZAL ALI, P.S. KAILASAM, A.P. SEN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Representation of the People Act
Headnote
D Representation of the People Act, 1951-Recount-When could be ordered """ by the Court. I• " ~.- , The appellant and the respondent, among a few others, were candidates in the elections to the State Assembly in which the appellant was declared elected. The respondent, in under s. !00(1 )(d)(iii) and (iv) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 on the ground that there were numerous-errors in the counting of votes as a result 6f which number of votes were wrongly rejected or wrongly accepted and prayed for qrdering of recounting because. the margin by which
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