Pradeep Kumar Rai vs The Returning Officer on 16 August, 2023
In Hanumant Singh v. State of
M.P., (2012) 3 MP LJ 191, this Court considered the judgment of the
Supreme Court reported in 1993 Supp (2) SCC 82 : AIR 1993 SC 367,
Shri Satyananrain Dudhani v. Uday Kumar Singh and opined that
secrecy of ballot cannot be lightly tinkered. In a democratic set up,
secrecy of ballot is of utmost importance and in absence of very specific
pleadings of material facts and particulars supported by
contemporaneous evidence, neither election can be quashed nor recount
can be ordered.