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SUHRAWARDY, COSTELLO
Satyendra Kumar Das – Appellant
Versus
Chairman of the Municipal Commissioners of Dacca – Respondent
JUDGMENT
Costello, J. - In this case the plaintiffs Satyendra Kumar Das and Sachi Nandan Das are seeking a declaration that they are qualified to be elected under the Bengal Municipal Election Rules of 1927 as commissioners of the Municipal Council of Dacca and that they are not disqualified u/s 57, Bengal Municipal Act, that is to say, Act 3 of 1881:. The facts as alleged by the plaintiffs are these. They say that they were persons of independent means and properties, that they were recorded as independent voters in the register of voters of Ward 1 of the Dacca Municipality, and that neither of them had anything to do with the business of their fathers Rebati Mohan Das (father of plaintiff l) and Hrishi Kesh Das (father of plaintiff 2). The fathers of the plaintiffs owned the joint firm Krishna Mohan Rebati Mohan Das at Faridabad Dacca which was a firm dealing in bricks and other materials of a like kind. The plaintiff's case was that this firm had supplied pugged jhama that is to say, road material to the Dacca Municipality in September 1927 at the special request of defendant 1, Chairman of the Municipality. The plaintiffs contended that the order for these materials had been giv
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