Supreme Court · 1954 INSC 75 · Decided 26 May 1954
The State of Bombay v. Bombay Education Society and OTHERS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1954 INSC 75 · [1955] 1 S.C.R. 568
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 64/1954
- Decided
- 26 May 1954
- Bench
- MEHR CHAND MAHAJAN, SUDHI RANJAN DAS, GHULAM HASAN, NATWARLAL HARILAL BHAGWATI, B. JAGANNADHADAS (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 29, 30(1), 337, 29(1), 29(2), 132(1)
Headnote
Bushahri v. PadamDev .and Others. Jl enkatarama AJ)'ar J. 1954 May 26. .568 SUPREME COURT REPORTS (1955] Act. To hold that Government servants are, as such and as a class, disqualified to act as polling agents would be to engraft an exception to the statute, which is not there. Accordingly, we our observa- tion in the original judgment that "if it is made out that the candidate or his agent had abused the right to appoint a Government servant as polling · agent by exploiting the situation for furthering his election prospects, then the. matter can be dealt with as an
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