MOHD.ABUBUKKAR SIDDIQUI vs MUSTAFA SHAHIDUL ISLAM — C.A. No. 2057/1999

The Supreme Court allowed the appeal and set aside the High Court's dismissal of substitution applications filed by petitioner Mohd. Abubakkar Siddiqui. The Court held that the 14-day period for filing substitution applications under Section 110(3)(c) of the Representation of the People Act must be calculated from publication in the Official Gazette, not from newspaper publication. Since both applications were filed within 14 days of the gazette publication (20 September 1997), they were timely and the case was remanded to the High Court for further proceedings on the merits. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.