KHAJE KHANAVAR KHADSKHAN HUSHENKHAN Vs. SIDDAVANHALLI NIJALINGAPPA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) At the General Elections of this year 1967. Mr. Siddavanahalli Nijalingappa who was at that time and still continues to be the Chief Minister of Mysore was returned unopposed to the Mysore Legislative Assembly from the Shiggaon Constituency of Dharwar District.

(2.) At the said election Khajekhanavar Khadarkhan Hussiankhan, the first petitioner in this petition, was one of the candidates who had presented nomination. The second petitioner Gangadhar Vasudev Joshi is an elector in that constituency and a friend of the first petitioner. In the petition filed by them they pray that the election of Mr. Nijalingappa as aforesaid be declared void and that the first petitioner be declared duly elected.

(3.) Mr. Nijalingappa is impleaded as the first respondent.