MUHAMMAD ADNAN versus RETURNING OFFICER, PP-136, NAROWAL
Sections 99 (1A) (l) and 14 disqualify an assembly from the election of an assembly by the returning officers during the election, irrespective of whether such procedure is returned by the returning officers to the returning candidate. Disqualified from contesting election, approval of nomination papers, invalidation of corrupt and corrupt practices by Returning Officers during the election, the Election Tribunal has declared the objection against the selection of retired candidates / respondents. Subsequently, elections were held in the same constituency for which the candidate / defendant had again submitted his nomination papers. The appellant's objection that the results of the election tribunal related to illegal practices during the general election were sufficient to disqualify the candidate / respondents from contesting the election by a valid election election tribunal. The candidate was found not directly responsible for any illegal and malicious act, but instead, taking advantage of it, he declared that the legal consequences of the illegal and corrupt practices of state workers (ie, returning officers). In the election, so by election Returning candidates candidate, thus, will not suffer disqualification under section 99 (1A). l) The objection against the nomination papers of the candidates returning to the Representation People Act, 1976 was baseless and ineligible. Appeal was dismissed in the circumstances.
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