Supreme Court of India

M. Ramappa v. Sangappa and Others

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Decided 21 August 1958

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What the Court ordered

In the result it was held that the respondent who had entered the service of the Government of New South Wales under and in accordance with the, provisions of the Civil Service Act, 1884, was not liable to be dismissed at the pleasure of the Goverment because of these provisions.

Judgment, page 6

From the headnote

The nomination papers of three candidates for election as members of the State Assembly were rejected by the Returning 1168 Officer on the ground that the first two of them were Patels and the third, a Shanbhog, of their villages and as such they were holders of offices of profit under the Government and consequentlydisqualified from membership of the State Assembly underArt. 191 of the Constitution of India. The validity of the election was challenged by some of the electors of the constituency by an election petition under s. 100(1)(c) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, on the…

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