These two votes were to be counted
in favour of Ranjeet Singh. Accordingly, (41+2) votes i.e. 43 votes
were casted in favour ... votes and was not entitled for
three invalid votes out of six votes. Three invalid votes were counted
in favour of Anoop Singh. By reducing
votes, when in fact, more than 6000 members' votes had been cast and if the valid votes, which have been "made" invalid ... votes invalid and for the Northern Chapter--378 votes invalid.
15. Admittedly, the invalid votes are merely 1/10 (approximately) of the votes polled. With
invalid
votes secured by respondent No.1 from out of the 604 votes, he
secured 601 votes. Therefore, even though the 23 votes invalidated ... votes and the respondent
who challenged the election secured 562 votes, the margin being only
6 votes. 53 votes were found invalid at the time
imputed of casting double votes in more than one
constituency including Ward No.8 had cast double
votes. The vote tendered ... cast his vote in favour of the revision petitioner.
Similarly, the postal vote which was found to be
invalid was also seen cast in favour
election tribunal recounted the votes and on recount it
was found that there were 4099 valid votes and 301 invalid votes. The
total number ... only five votes on re-
count and 23 votes as originally counted, 93 votes
are substantial specially when we feel that invalid
votes were
invalid votes, 97 votes were
casted in favour of the petitioner. In polling booth No. 59, out
of 153 votes declared invalid, 121 votes were ... votes were
rejected 70 votes were casted in favour of the petitioner. In
polling booth No. 63 where 58 votes were rejected 42 votes
were
cast in favour of the petitioner as invalid. According
to the petitioner, the number of such invalid votes is very high and
from the scrutiny ... cast in favour
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of the petitioner as invalid and the number of such invalid votes are
very high which were not less than
with the votes polled in favour of the appellant; and on
which table the votes polled in his favour were rejected as invalid.
Precisely ... received
410 votes. The total number of the votes which had been polled were 1376
out of which 1327 votes were found to be valid
invalid votes were
wrongly accepted as valid votes and 10 more valid votes of the petitioner were
rejected as invalid. It was also stated that ... valid votes in his favour while
counting of votes. It was also alleged that in fact, only 27 votes of petitioner
were declared invalid
votes whereas the appellant secured 1229 votes and
while counting the total votes polled the counting officials have added more than 40
invalid votes ... evidence of P.Ws. 2 and 4 regarding
addition of invalid votes in favour of the appellant and rejection of valid votes of the
respondent
