have secured only 556 votes and X votes
respectively, and 55 votes were declared to be invalid
votes.
Two days after the results were declared ... petitioner is entitled to ask for recounting.
Recounting is ordered."
In the recount of of votes it was found that there was
no difference
treated some valid votes
cast in favour of the petitioner as invalid votes and
certain invalid votes were treated as valid votes which were
cast ... votes as against 649 votes he was
originally held to have secured. 121 votes cast in his
favour had been found to be invalid votes
prescribed authority has delegated the powers of recounting
to the Tahsildar and the recounting of votes was done by the
Tahsildar who was assisted ... prescribed authority while passing the order
of recounting has directed the Returning Officer to recount
the votes himself, however, on the basis of the order
votes were
polled in all. J. B. Dhote received 1,25,665 votes; R. C.
Sharma, 1 , 23,615, 7425 votes were rejected votes.
Paragraph ... many rejected votes
were counted as valid and many valid votes were rejected.
The tendered votes were not counted and 14 votes were
missing
appointed as nominee of the Court. He is directed to recount the recounting of votes according to law in the presence of the Returning Officer ... votes while Smt. Darshna got 486 valid votes and 45 were invalid votes.
10. An application for recounting was filed which was decided
before a recounting is directed to be made.
A direction for recounting shall not be issued only because the
margin of votes between the returned ... 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
votes
while 308 votes were rejected. In this way,
Kulwant Singh petitioner got 25 votes more than
the votes of the respondent. The recounting
sheet ... result of recounting but has challenged the order of
recounting itself. In the case of Karam Singh (supra), the recount was
ordered on the basis
paramount importance, recounting could not be ordered on flimsy grounds.
9. Trial Court decided the issue regarding the recount of votes by the impugned order ... claimed a recount before the Returning Officer.
31. As stated in the earlier part of the judgment, the rules regarding recount of votes under
many as three recounts took place before the fourth recount started which was of the entire number of votes. According to respondent ... counting or any recount of the votes is completed, require the Returning Officer to have the votes recounted or again recounted but the Returning Officer
total 3187 votes of
said ward 1984 voters had casted their votes. In the counting of votes held on
6.1.2006 and Sri Anand Dwivedi ... ground for ordering recount. A roving and
fishing inquiry was not permissible while directing recount of votes.
The requirement of maintaining secrecy of ballot papers
