False Affidavit By Election Candidate Would Not Amount To 'Corrupt Practice' If It Was Rectified Before Scrutiny: SC [Read Order]

Ashok Kini

3 March 2019 3:22 PM IST

"This, according to us, is obviously a mere mistake committed by the returned candidate while submitting the statutory form which has been duly corrected by filing an affidavit."

The Supreme Court has observed that if a candidate rectifies the incorrect information that was given in the Nomination Paper, before its scrutiny by the returning officer, it would not amount to 'corrupt practice'. The allegations in the election petition filed against Jibontara Ghatowar was that she did not disclose the fact of the pendency of a criminal case, in the...

False Affidavit By Election Candidate Would Not Amount To 'Corrupt Practice' If It Was Rectified Before Scrutiny: SC [Read Order]

Ashok Kini

"This, according to us, is obviously a mere mistake committed by the returned candidate while submitting the statutory form which has been duly corrected by filing an affidavit."

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