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PETITIONER: CHIEF COMMISSIONER, AJMER
Vs.
RESPONDENT: RADHEY SHYAM DANI.
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 15/11/1956
BENCH: BHAGWATI, NATWARLAL H. BENCH: BHAGWATI, NATWARLAL H. DAS, SUDHI RANJAN (CJ) AIYYAR, T.L. VENKATARAMA SINHA, BHUVNESHWAR P. DAS, S.K.
CITATION: 1957 AIR 304 1957 SCR 68
ACT: Municipal Election-Electoral roll-Election Rules-No Provi- sion for revision of electoral roll and for adjudication of claims Validity of the electoral roll-Ajmer-Merwara Municipalities Regulation,1925 (VI Of 1925), ss. 30 (2), 43- Ajmer State Municipalities Election Rules, 1955, r. 7.
HEADNOTE: Sub-section (2) Of S. 30 of the Ajmer-Merwara Municipalities Regulation, 925, as amended, provided that " every person who would be entitled under the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (XLIII of 1950) to be registered in the electoral roll for a Parliamentary Constituency if that Constituency had been co-extensive with the Municipality, and whose name is registered in the electoral roll for the Parliamentary Constituency comprising the Municipality, shall be entitled to be enrolled as an elector of the Municipality"; and s. 43 enabled the Chief Commissioner to make rules consistent with the Regulation for the preparation and revision of electoral rolls and the adjudication of claims to be enrolled and objections to enrolment. In exercise of this power the appellant framed Rules which, inte...