Supreme Court · 2002 INSC 162 · Decided 20 March 2002
Rajankumar Shankarrao Taware and ANR. v. Ajit Anantrao Pawar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2002 INSC 162 · [2002] 2 S.C.R. 640
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5657/2001
- Decided
- 20 March 2002
- Bench
- G.B. PATTANAIK, S.N. PHUKAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Representation of the People Act Section 116A
Headnote
Election Laws: Representation of People Act, 1951-Section lOO(J)(d)(iii)-Election- C Respondent won by huge margin-Shifting of ballot boxes without informing the contesting candidates-Appellants alleging the motive for shifting is for replacing genuine ballot papers with fake ones-Demand for in th~ absence of evidence, the r;ippellants have failed to establish a prima facie . D case for inspection of ballot papers. Appellants, one a voter and the other a counting agent of the defeated candidate, challenged the election of respondent from an assembly constituency before High Court
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