Supreme Court of India
Dewan Joynal Abedin v. Abdul Wazed Alias Abdul Wazad Miah and Two Others.
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What the Court ordered
We hold that the Ist respondent was not holding an office of profit when he was a lessee under the Ferries Act just like an Excise contractor or a fair price shop dealer who sells grains supplied by Government is not such a holder of office of profit.
Judgment, page 14
From the headnote
The first respondent filed an election petition before the High Court for setting aside the election of the appellant to the State Legislative Assembly under s. 100(1)(c) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, contending that the rejection of his nomination papers by the Returning officer was erroneous as he had, in fact, completed 25 years of age on the date of his nomination. The petition was opposed by the appellant contending that as the first respondent had not completed 25 years of age on the date of scrutiny of nominations, the nomination papers had been rightly rejected, that…
Where later benches applied it
- 2013 M/s. Larsen & Toubro Limited & Anr. v. State of Karnataka & Anr.
- 2013 Mahadeo S/o Kerba Maske v. State of Maharashtra and Anr.
- 2006 Shrikant v. Vasantrao and Ors.
- 2002 Prakash Khandre v. Dr. Vijay Kumar Khandre and Ors.
- 2001 Kartar Singh Bhadana v. Hari Singh Nalwa and Ors.
- 1999 Somnath Rath v. Bikram K. Arukh and Ors.
- 1999 Ranjit Singh v. Harmohinder Singh Pradhan
Of those, 7 mentioned
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