Masarrat Shahid vs Umakant Sharma on 29 July, 2019
The decision of the Division Bench
of this Court also makes it clear that there can be
no waiver of the requirement of rule 8 of the Rules
of 1995 and failure of the authority to dismiss the
petition at the threshold would not prohibit or
prevent the authority from doing so at the later
The High Court of Madhya Pradesh
Election Petition No. 23/2019
(Masarrat Shahid vs. Umakant Sharma)
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stage. In the circumstances, the contention of the
petitioner to the contrary also deserves to be
rejected."