Supreme Court · 1966 INSC 191 · Decided 30 September 1966
Samyukta Socialist Party v. Election Commission of India & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1966 INSC 191 · [1967] 1 S.C.R. 643
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1653/1966
- Decided
- 30 September 1966
- Bench
- K. SUBBA RAO, M. HIDAYATULLAH, RAGHUBAR DAYAL, S.M. SIKRI, R.S. BACHAWAT (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32, 226
Headnote
Conduct of Eltctibn Rules, 1961, r. S(l)~Powers of Election Com­ mlmtm-Merger of two political parties into one party-Elterion symbol Df one of the merging parties allotttd to the ntW ptl1'4Y-'1'artin lepat'tll­ lng agal......Symbol whether can bt taken back from n.w the party to which It originally belonged. In the 1962 general electi<in the Praja Socialist Party had the 'Hut' as its election symbol In 1964 tlie Praja Socialist Party and the Social­ ist fartY combined to form the Samyukta Socialist Party, and the Elec>­ tion' Commission
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