PAOKAI HAOKIP Vs. RISHANG

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE following Judgment of the courtwas delivered by:-

(2.) THIS is an appeal from the court of the JudicialCommissioner for Manipur at Imphalunder S. 116A of the Representation ofthe People Act. The appeal arises from anelection to the Outer Manipur Parliamentary Conituency at which the appellant,who was the returned candidate, and fiveothers were the contesting candidates.THIS Outer Manipur Constituency comprised 14 Assembly constituencies. Thedates of poll were 15The 20The 24The 2 8/02/1967 and 6/03/1967 andthe time of poll was from 7-30 A. M. to4-30 P. M. THIS constituency had 219,554registered voters. The total number ofvotes polled was 1,20,008. Of these 4,166votes were declared invalid. The returnedcandidate received 30,403 votes as againstthe next candidate who received 28,862votes' There was thus a majority of 1,541<PG>664</PG>votes in favour of the returned candidate.The result of the poll was declared on 10/03/1967.

(3.) THE following chart discloses thebreak-up of the figures at these pollingcentres: <FRM>JUDGEMENT_663_AIR(SC)_1969Html1.htm</FRM>