Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 73 · Decided 19 February 1999
Rabindra Kumar Nayak v. Collector, Mayurbhanj, Orissa and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 73 · [1999] 1 S.C.R. 768
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 943/1999
- Decided
- 19 February 1999
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, S.S.M. QUADRI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 25
Headnote
Parichayats : Orissa Panchayat Samiti Act, 1959, Section 45(1)(i). c Panchayat Samiti--Member and Chainnan--Eli!t:tion of-Disqualifica- tion of candidates-Holder of "office of profit"-An advocate, provisionally, appointed as Assistant Public Prosecutor, under R. 5 ( 4) read with S. 25 of Assistant Pubic Prosecutor is an "office of Profit" under the State D Govemment-He1u;e, such a person is not eligible to contest the election for the post of member or Cl1ainnan and, if elected, would cease to be a member and a fortiori to be Chairman-Orissa Law Officers Rules, 1971,
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