Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 571 · Decided 19 May 2023
Senthibalaji V v. A.P. Geetha and Ors
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 571 · [2023] 6 S.C.R. 546
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3895/2023
- Decided
- 19 May 2023
- Bench
- ABHAY S. OKA, RAJESH BINDAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC; Representation of the People Act Section 83, 123
Headnote
Representation of the People Act, 1951 - ss.83, 123 - Failure to plead material facts in the election petition concerning alleged corrupt practice - Held: s.123 defines corrupt practices - s.83(1)(a) mandates that an election petition must contain a concise statement of When the allegation is of corrupt practice, the basic facts constituting corrupt practice must be pleaded in order to comply with s.83(1)(a) - In the present case, such concise facts were not at all pleaded - Basic facts cannot be pleaded only by stating that the same find place in
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