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MOOTHAM, MUKERJI
MOHD. IBRAHIM – Appellant
Versus
ELECTION TRIBUNAL – Respondent
( 1 ) THIS is a petition under Article 226 of the Constitution which raises two questions of election law of some importance.
( 2 ) THE facts are these: Five persons, who are respondents Nos. 5 to 9, were candidates for election to the House of the People from the Luck-now District (Central) Constituency at a bye-election held on the 27th February, 1955. At this election Srimati Sheoraiwati Nehru was declared elected and thereupon Sri Triloki Singh, respondent No. 5, filed an election petition challenging the election of the successful candidate on a number of grounds, it being alleged that corrupt practices had been committed at the election.
( 3 ) ON the 14th June. 1958, the Election Tribunal constituted to hear the petition served upon the petitioner who is a Minister in the Government of the Uttar Pradesh. a notice under the proviso to Section 99 (1) of the Representation of the People Act. 1951. calling upon him to appear before the Tribunal and to show cause why he should not be named as a person who had been proved at the trial to have been guilty of the corrupt practice defined in Section 123 Clause (8) of that Act; namely that as an agent of Srimati Sheoraiwati
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