https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=189909 The Supreme Court held that only candidates at the election may be joined as respondents to an election petition under Sections 82 and 86(4) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, and no others. The Court emphasized that election petitions are statutory proceedings governed by the Act, and the Civil Procedure Code cannot be invoked to allow what the Act prohibits. Consequently, the appeal was allowed, and the names of the appellants and the seventh respondent were directed to be struck out from the array of parties in the election petition. en-us Fri, 26 Feb 1982 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 25 Jan 2017 15:31:30 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=189909 The Supreme Court held that only candidates at the election may be joined as respondents to an election petition under Sections 82 and 86(4) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, and no others. The Court emphasized that election petitions are statutory proceedings governed by the Act, and the Civil Procedure Code cannot be invoked to allow what the Act prohibits. Consequently, the appeal was allowed, and the names of the appellants and the seventh respondent were directed to be struck out from the array of parties in the election petition. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 26 Feb 1982 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=189909