A Division Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court held that a nomination form omitting a criminal case pending on the filing date was liable to be rejected. A later acquittal, silence at scrutiny and a 502-vote margin did not save the election. An analysis of the order.
The MP High Court's Gwalior Bench resolves a long-standing drafting gap in the MP Municipalities Act, 1961, holding that limitation for an election petition against a Municipal President runs from the date of election at the Council's first meeting, not from any Gazette notification. The Court also imposed costs of Rs. 1,00,000 on a party for raising a maintainability objection it knew to be baseless.
