PARKASH CHAND Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS

JUDGEMENT

(1.) PARKASH Chand has filed this appeal under clause X of the Letters Patent against the judgment of a learned Single Judge of this Court.

(2.) ON the admitted facts, the only contention raised before us by Mr. Sawhney, Learned Counsel for the appellant, was that the co -option having been held illegal, the election of the President and Vice President should also have been declared void. Reliance in support of his contention was placed by the Learned Counsel on a Division Bench decision of this Court in Onkar Singh v. State of Haryana : (1972) 74 PLR 378.

(3.) IN view of the aforesaid finding there would have been no difficulty for me to dismiss the appeal, but I find that Onkar Singh's case (supra) on which reliance has been placed by the Learned Counsel for the appellant, lends support to his contention as is apparent from the following observations: -