Supreme Court · 2006 INSC 972 · Decided 8 December 2006
Sathi Vijay Kumar v. Tota Singh and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2006 INSC 972 · [2006] SUPP. 10 S.C.R. 433
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4093/2004
- Decided
- 8 December 2006
- Bench
- Y.K. SABHARWAL, C.K. THAKKER, R.V. RAVEENDRAN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC
Headnote
Representation of People Act, 1951 Election petition Necessary parties-Substitute candidate of a recognized political party-Held-On acceptance of nomination paper of main approved candidate of that party, nomination paper of substitute candidate has to be rejected, and their non-joinder to an Act does not make any provision D as to striking out pleadings-As Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 has been made applicable to trial of Election Petitions by Section 87 of the Act, pleadings which are required to be struck off under Rule 16 of Order VI in a suit can also be ordered to
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