Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 612 · Decided 1 May 2019
Seema Sarkar v. Executive Officer and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 612 · [2019] 8 S.C.R. 151
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4547/2019
- Decided
- 1 May 2019
- Bench
- A.M. KHANWILKAR, AJAY RASTOGI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 243C
Headnote
Panchayat: Inclusion or exclusion of the Member of the House of Parliament (MP) representing the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, who is also an ex-officio member of the Panchayat Samiti, for reckoning the quorum of a special meeting regarding motion of no confidence against the Samiti - Held: The quorum of the special meeting ought to be of not less than two-thirds of the "total number of membership of the Panchayat Samiti" which includes all the members of the Panchayat Samiti - be it directly elected or ex-officio members, as the case may be
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