https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=286887 A partner could be disqualified from contesting a municipal election where the firm in which he was a partner was in arrears of municipal taxes, because the statutory scheme treated the firm as a collection of persons and the liability attached to the partners for disqualification purposes. The authority, however, could not declare the defeated candidate duly elected merely because the returned candidate was later found disqualified; it first had to determine whether the votes cast for the returned candidate were knowingly wasted by electors aware of that disqualification. The disqualification was upheld, but the declaration of the defeated candidate as elected was set aside and a fresh election was required. en-us Thu, 20 Oct 1955 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 19 Mar 2020 15:49:07 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=286887 A partner could be disqualified from contesting a municipal election where the firm in which he was a partner was in arrears of municipal taxes, because the statutory scheme treated the firm as a collection of persons and the liability attached to the partners for disqualification purposes. The authority, however, could not declare the defeated candidate duly elected merely because the returned candidate was later found disqualified; it first had to determine whether the votes cast for the returned candidate were knowingly wasted by electors aware of that disqualification. The disqualification was upheld, but the declaration of the defeated candidate as elected was set aside and a fresh election was required. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 20 Oct 1955 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=286887