https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=276065 Where a recount is confined to mechanical physical counting, votes admittedly cast for a candidate but wrongly placed in another packet must be credited to that candidate without a notice of recrimination under Section 97, because no fresh inquiry into vote validity is involved. A packing error does not justify excluding such votes from the candidate's total. The objection that postal ballot papers were printed in Hindi under Rule 22 of the Conduct of Election Rules, 1961 also failed, as no material showed that the irregularity materially affected the result. On a proper recount, the disputed votes belonged to the appellant and the election petition could not succeed. en-us Thu, 03 May 1979 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 26 Oct 2018 15:38:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=276065 Where a recount is confined to mechanical physical counting, votes admittedly cast for a candidate but wrongly placed in another packet must be credited to that candidate without a notice of recrimination under Section 97, because no fresh inquiry into vote validity is involved. A packing error does not justify excluding such votes from the candidate's total. The objection that postal ballot papers were printed in Hindi under Rule 22 of the Conduct of Election Rules, 1961 also failed, as no material showed that the irregularity materially affected the result. On a proper recount, the disputed votes belonged to the appellant and the election petition could not succeed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 03 May 1979 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=276065