Supreme Court · 2005 INSC 491 · Decided 7 October 2005
Rameshwar Prasad and ORS. v. Union of India and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2005 INSC 491 · [2005] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 152
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 257/2005
- Decided
- 7 October 2005
- Bench
- Y.K. SABHARWAL, K.G. BALAKRISHNAN, B.N. AGRAWAL, ASHOK BHAN, ARIJIT PASAYAT (5-judge bench)
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32, 356, 174; Representation of the People Act Section 73
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1950: C Articles 174(2)(b) and 356-Notification G.S.R. 162(£) dated 7.3.2005 and Notification dated 23. 5.2005-Legislative Assembly of Bihar-Dissolution of-Held, The Proclamation dated 23rd May, 2005 dissolving the Legislative Assembly of the State of Bihar is impugned Proclamation, but having regard to the facts and circumstances D of the case, the present is not a case where in exercise of discretionary jurisdiction the status quo ante deserves to be ordered to restore the Legislative Assembly as it stood on the date of Proclamation dated 7th March,
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