Judgment

A. VARADARAJAN, J.:- This appeal by the respondent in Election Petn. No. 7 of 1982 on the file of the Punjab and Haryana High Court is directed against the judgment of a learned single Judge declaring the appellants election from the Jind constituency of the Haryana Legislative Assembly as void on the ground that the nomination paper of a candidate Dog Ram was improperly rejected. The last date for filing nomination papers was 24-4-1982, and in the scrutiny made on 26-4-1982 nomination papers of two candidates including Dog Ram were rejected by the Returning Officer. The principal contest was between one Mange Ram, a Congress (1) candidate and the appellant, an independent candidate who had been set up by the Lok Dal party. The polling was on 19-5-1982 and after the counting was made on 20-5-1982 the appellant was declared elected from the Jind constituency.

2. The election petition was filed by, the respondent, Sat Pal, an elector in the Jind constituency. His case in the election petition was that Dog Ram was registered as an elector at Serial No. 177 and house No. 57 in part 39 of the electoral roll of the Jind constituency. Ram Partap who proposed Dog Ram as a candidate,