High Court directed the election tribunal to decide a pending election petition within six months, upholding the principle of early disposal mandated by precedent and applicable rules, while ensuring procedural fairness.
Direction to the election tribunal to decide the election petition within six months of its institution.
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Court No. - 18
Case :- WRIT - C No. - 24165 of 2021
Petitioner :- Smt. Uma Devi Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 9 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Bharat Singh Pal Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.
Hon'ble Ajay Bhanot,J.
1 2016 (6) ADJ 27
against an inordinate delay or unnecessary prolongation of election petitions. Further in the same judgement after a survey of various provisions of the U.P. Panchayat Raj Act, 1947, including Section 12C(5) of the U.P. Panchayat Raj Act, 1947, it was held:
"8. In exercise of powers for nominating the prescribed authority and regulating the method and procedure for presentation and hearing of election petition State of Uttar Pradesh has framed "Uttar Pradesh Panchayat Raj (Settlement of Election Disputes) Rules, 1994." The Rules provide that an application under Section 12-C Rule-3 has to be filed within ninety days from the date the result is declared. Rule-4 provides for the Sub-Divisional Magistrate being the competent authority to hear such election disputes. Rule-4 declare that while deciding such election petitions the Sub-Divisional Magistrate shall summarily follow the procedure applicable under the Code of Civil Procedure 1908 for trial of suits. Such applications can be dismissed, without giving notice to the opposite parties. It shall not be necessary to record the evidence in full and he may only maintain a memorandum of the evidence produced by the parties before him.
"20. A voter casts his vote as a responsible citizen to choose the masters for governing the country. That being the trust of the electorate in an elected candidate, when he faces an assail to his election, it should be his sanguine effort to become free from the assail in the election petition and work with attainment and not take shelter seeking adjournments with the elated hope that he can be triumphant in the contest by passage of time. This kind of attitude has to be curbed from all angles because law does not countenance it.”
2 (2015) 16 SCC 149
conclusion of election petitions was found to be imperative for the functioning of democracy in Satya
Narain Vs. Dhuja Ram and others3 .
3 (1994) 4 SCC 247
2 issues framed by the court
Whether an election petition instituted under Section 12-C of the U.P. Panchayat Raj Act, 1947 can be decided within a stipulated period.
Whether the election tribunal is directed to decide the pending election petition within six months.
Colour shows how this judgement treated each authority
Anita Devi and others Vs. Prescribed Authority, Panchayat Raj and othersFollowed¶11
2016 (6) ADJ 27
Pukhrem Saratchandra Singh v. Mairembam PrithvirajDistinguished¶17
(2015) 16 SCC 149 · Who else cites this
Satya Narain Vs. Dhuja Ram and othersDistinguished¶19
(1994) 4 SCC 247 · Who else cites this
2 provisions across 2 enactments
Smt. Uma Devi
State Of U.P.
Ajay Bhanot
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