Supreme Court · 1955 INSC 68 · Decided 24 November 1955
Shri Virindar Kumar Satyawadi v. The State of PUNJAB.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1955 INSC 68 · [1955] 2 S.C.R. 1013
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 62/1954
- Decided
- 24 November 1955
- Bench
- BIJAN KUMAR MUKHERJEA, T.L. VENKATARAMA AIYYAR, SYED JAFFER IMAM (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 181, 182, 193; CrPC Section 476, 195; Constitution; Representation of the People Act Section 33, 36, 33(3)
Headnote
COURT REPORTS 1013 SHRI VIRINDAR KUMAR SATYAWADI v. THE STATE OF PUNJAB. f B. K. MnT<:HERJEA, C.J., VENKATARAMA AYYAR and JAFER IMAM JJ.] Representation of the People Act, (XLlll of 1951), ss. 33, 36- Ci·iminai Procedu1·e Code (V of 1898), ss. 195(1)(b), 476, 476B­ Retuming a Returning Officer acting under ss. 33 and 36 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 and deciding on the validity or otherwise of a nomination paper is not a court within the mean­ ing of ss. 195(1)(b), 476 and 476-B of the Code of Criminal Pro­ cedure. Shell Co. of Australia v.
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