Supreme Court · 1976 INSC 212 · Decided 8 September 1976
Thakur Virendra Singh v. Vimal Kumar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1976 INSC 212 · [1977] 1 S.C.R. 525
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1212/1974
- Decided
- 8 September 1976
- Bench
- HANS RAJ KHANNA, N.L. UNTWALIA, JASWANT SINGH (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 99; Representation of the People Act
Headnote
5Z.5 Representation of the People Act, 1950-Election Petition-Not accompanied by impugned pamphlet-If liable to be rejected-Printer-If could be called an accomplice-Failure to send pamphlet to District Magistrate as required by S. 127-A (2)-If makes the Printer an accomplice. The respondent, who the appellant's election on the ground that be had committed a corrupt practice within the me:ming of s. lOO(l)(b) of the Representation of the People Act, 1950, in that he had printed and circ,ulated a pamphlet maligning the respondent. Allowing the petition, the High Court set aside the
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