SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

 

Sameera Paikara

 

Vs.

 

Amit Ajit Jogi

 

C.A.No.6-7 of 2016

 

(Anil R.Dave and Adarsh Kumar Goel,JJ.)

 

04.01.2016

 

JUDGMENT

 

Anil R. Dave, J.

 

(Arising out of SLP(C)Nos.30442-43 of 2015)

 

1. Leave granted.

2. Heard the learned            counsel.

 

3. Upon considering            the facts of the case, we are of the view that the following issue is required to be added :

 

”Whether respondent No.1 was entitled to contest the Assembly election of the State, being American Citizen by birth?"

 

4.  So far as other issues, which have been raised by the petitioner, are concerned, they have already been covered by the issues already raised.

 

5. The afore-stated issue shall be added to the issues already raised.

 

6. With the above directions, the appeals are disposed of as allowed with no order as to costs. Pending application, if any, stands disposed of.