https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=293215 The electoral roll for a constituency election attains finality on the last date for making nominations, and Section 23(3) of the Representation of People Act, 1950 bars any post-nomination amendment, transposition, deletion, or inclusion until the election is completed. On that basis, the electoral registration officer had no power to add fresh names after the nomination stage, and votes cast by those impermissibly added electors were void. Those void votes materially affected the election result under Section 100(1)(d)(iii) of the Representation of People Act, 1951, so the election challenge succeeded. en-us Wed, 13 Aug 1969 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 30 Jan 2021 10:52:38 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=293215 The electoral roll for a constituency election attains finality on the last date for making nominations, and Section 23(3) of the Representation of People Act, 1950 bars any post-nomination amendment, transposition, deletion, or inclusion until the election is completed. On that basis, the electoral registration officer had no power to add fresh names after the nomination stage, and votes cast by those impermissibly added electors were void. Those void votes materially affected the election result under Section 100(1)(d)(iii) of the Representation of People Act, 1951, so the election challenge succeeded. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 13 Aug 1969 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=293215