https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=304198 The HC held that the constitutional and statutory scheme for requisitioning election staff is exhaustive: Article 324(6) permits requisition only from Central or State services made available by the President or Governor, and Section 159 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 extends only to local authority staff. State Bank of India, being a statutory corporation and not a local authority, could not be brought within that category, and Section 26 could not be treated as an independent source of power. The Court also held that Election Commission instructions or administrative practice could not enlarge the statutory classes or override the governing scheme. The appointment letters were quashed and requisition of SBI employees for election duty was restrained. en-us Fri, 21 May 1993 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 13 Sep 2022 10:51:52 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=304198 The HC held that the constitutional and statutory scheme for requisitioning election staff is exhaustive: Article 324(6) permits requisition only from Central or State services made available by the President or Governor, and Section 159 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 extends only to local authority staff. State Bank of India, being a statutory corporation and not a local authority, could not be brought within that category, and Section 26 could not be treated as an independent source of power. The Court also held that Election Commission instructions or administrative practice could not enlarge the statutory classes or override the governing scheme. The appointment letters were quashed and requisition of SBI employees for election duty was restrained. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 21 May 1993 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=304198