Supreme Court · 1971 INSC 169 · Decided 28 July 1971
Wopansao v. N. L. Odyuo & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1971 INSC 169 · [1971] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 956
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1792/1970
- Decided
- 28 July 1971
- Bench
- J.M. SHELAT, A.N. RAY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Representation of the People Act Section 116A, 20(3)
Headnote
Representation of the People A.ct, 1950-Section 20(3) & 30-Service· Personnel-Statutory fiction does not take away right to get registered in constituency where personnel ordinarily residing, though place of .service alsv---Electoral roll-Finality of. The appellant challenged the in so far as it concerned the respondent had been materially affected by the improper reception of votes cast in his favour by the personnel of the 12th Battalion Assam Rifles. It was urged (i) that the Electoral Registration Officer had no jurisdiction to register the personnel of the 12th
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