https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=199927 A society may maintain a representative challenge to an election process when it espouses a common member grievance, and Section 20 of the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act, 1975 is not confined to the society's property claims; on that basis, maintainability was upheld. Mandatory voting directions were found to have been violated at two booths through ballot manipulation, lack of free voting, deficient identity verification and dual voting, amounting to tampering under the election rules; all votes in those booths were invalidated. In the absence of any express rule conferring such power, neither the Court nor the Returning Officer could order a re-poll, so the invalidation order remained operative for the affected booths only. en-us Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 15 Mar 2018 12:40:35 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=199927 A society may maintain a representative challenge to an election process when it espouses a common member grievance, and Section 20 of the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act, 1975 is not confined to the society's property claims; on that basis, maintainability was upheld. Mandatory voting directions were found to have been violated at two booths through ballot manipulation, lack of free voting, deficient identity verification and dual voting, amounting to tampering under the election rules; all votes in those booths were invalidated. In the absence of any express rule conferring such power, neither the Court nor the Returning Officer could order a re-poll, so the invalidation order remained operative for the affected booths only. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=199927