Dismissed
Sri T Sampath Kumarachar v. the State of Karnataka
Karnataka HCWP/546/2024
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
Members excluded from the voters list for a co-operative society election sought a direction to permit them to vote, relying on alleged non-compliance with Rule 13-D(2-A). Following B.Ganganna and Mohammad Beary, the court held non-compliance alone does not confer voting rights; petitioners had not replied to notices. Petition dismissed; liberty to raise a Section 70 dispute; votes kept in sealed
What did the court decide?
Petition dismissed; liberty to raise dispute under Section 70 of the Karnataka Co-operative Societies Act, 1959; votes cast kept in separate sealed ballot box pending any election dispute.