Dismissed
Pawan Kumar v. Election Commission of India and Ors.
Punjab & Haryana HCCWP/19014/2015
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
Petitioner, who lost the Haryana Assembly election and failed to file an election petition, filed a writ petition declaring him the elected candidate alleging corrupt practices. The court held this was an abuse of process as the statutory remedy was not availed.
What did the court decide?
Writ petition dismissed as abuse of process of law and failure to avail statutory remedy.