1954 INSC 0117
                                        SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

                                                    Karnail Singh

                                                           Vs.

                                             Election Tribunal, Hissar

       (Mehar Chand Mahajan C.J., Mukherjea, S.R. Das, Vivlan Bose and Ghulam Hasan JJ.)

                                                      22.09.1954

                                                         JUDGMENT

MEHAR CHAND MAHAJAN C.J.-

The Tribunal in this case held that the nomination paper of Sher Singh was wrongly rejected on the
ground that column No. 8 in the nomination form was not duly filed up. The only defect pointed out
was that the name of the sub-division was not stated therein, but on the evidence it was quite clear
that there was no difficulty in identifying the candidate and the candidate himself pointed out to the
Returning Officer the entry of his name in the electoral roll The defect, in these circumstances, was
a technical one and the Tribunal was perfectly character and that the nomination paper should not
have been rejected. The majority of the Tribunal, in these circumstances, were justified in their
conclusion that the result of the election was affected buy this wrong rejection of the nomination
paper.

Mr. Chatterjee for the appellant has not been able to persuade us to take a contrary view.

The result, therefore, is that this appeal fails and is dismissed with costs.
Appeal dismissed.
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