agents about incorrectly invalidating his votes, and that he could not give the number of votes incorrectly invalidated. He is therefore, unable to assert that ... folding the ballot paper, the vote was being invalidated, and that number of invalid votes of the respondent were taken as valid. He further deposed
following votes:-
Petitioner : 49,267 votes
1st respondent : 49,514 votes
2nd respondent : 235 votes
3rd respondent : 316 votes
4th respondent : 524 votes
5th respondent ... votes
6th respondent : 1,468 votes
7th respondent : 240 votes
4,781 votes were rejected. 1st respondent was declared elected with a margin
that the petitioner secured 725 votes and the first respondent 724 votes. 74 votes were found to be invalid. The Election Officer, the third respondent ... ascertaining the invalidity pertaining to the said objection but not for discovering any fresh grounds of invalidity of the votes secured by both sides
first counting of votes, the petitioner got six votes more than
the 6th respondent, with 82 votes treated as invalid. In the second
round ... invalid votes remained as 87;
on another recount, while the petitioner was declared elected with
a majority of two votes, the invalid votes increased
minors might have exercised their votes, those 2 votes can be picked out and declared as invalid votes. So, according to the above material ... papers only pertaining to 2 minor votes and 12 votes only which contained 2 marks on each vote."
Even though the 1st respondent
votes. The other respondent Nos. 6 to 9 secured 164, 423, 132 and 41 votes respectively, 662 Votes were declared as invalid. The total number ... elected candidate secured 11660 votes whereas the defeated candidate secured 11657 votes as many as 750 votes have been declared invalid. Thus, the returned candidate
secured 52,687 votes while the petitioner got 51,709 votes and the votes secured by R-2 to R-7 are in hundreds only ... regard to wrong rejection of some votes and wrong reception of some votes, scrutiny of all invalid votes and the votes counted in favour
recount the votes. The Election Officer, who agreed for recounting of the votes, in fact recounted only the invalid votes, and passed an order stating ... recount the votes. The Election Officer instead of recounting the entire votes polled, has in fact, recounted only the invalid votes. In our opinion
secured 42 votes. 5th respondent secured 41 votes. 6th respondent secured 40 votes. The petitioner secured 41 votes. One vote was declared invalid ... counted the number of votes polled. There were in all 290 votes polled. Out of them one vote found invalid. He states that
request for re-counting. The Election Officer recounted only the invalid votes and declared K. Lalithamma-2nd respondent as duly elected by a margin ... votes. The petitioner filed election petition contending that she sought for recounting of entire votes whereas the Election Officer recounted only invalid votes. Further allegation
