Supreme Court of India
Hafiz Rashid Ahmed Choudhury v. Kripanath Mallah
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What the Court ordered
We, hence, find absolutely no reason to sustain the order of the High Court and reverse the same. We restore the Election Petition to the files of the High Court for consideration as required herein above. The appeal is allowed.
Judgment, 26-27
In brief
The appellant filed an Election Petition challenging the election of the respondent, the returned candidate from No.7 Karimganj Parliamentary Constituency, Assam, in the 2024 Lok Sabha general elections. The respondent applied under Section 86 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 for rejection, contending that in the copy of the petition served on him the Form-25 affidavit (Rule 94A, Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961) bore no notarisation or attestation, that pages 1-84 of the served copy were stamped 'attested to be true copy of the petition' while pages 85-185 bore a different stamp 'certified to be true copy', and that four pages were missing.…
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