ELECTION PETITION 411
To,
The Election Commission,
New Delhi.
THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE PETITIONERS ABOVE NAMED RESPECTFULLY SHEWETH :
That the Petitioners were candidates for election to the House of the People from Bombay City North constituency at the Elections to the House of the People held on the 3rd January, 1952.
That the Petitioners’ names were duly enrolled in the electoral roll and the Petitioners thus became eligible to stand as candidates from the said Constituency to the House of the People.
That the Petitioners duly filed their nomination papers as candidates from the Bombay City North Constituency. The Petitioners’ nominations were duly accepted on 27th November,
The Respondents 1 to 9 were the other candidates to the House of the People from the same Constituency as that of the Petitioners. The Respondent Nos. 7, 8 and 9 withdrew their candidature within the time allowed for such withdrawal.
That the said Bombay City North Constituency, as a plural member Constituency, has a right to elect two members to the House of the People. Out of the two seats to be filled in by Election in the said Constituency, one seat is general and the second one is reserved for the Scheduled Castes. Every voter in this Constituency has subject to the restriction prescribed in Section 63 (1) of the Act, two votes as there are two members to be elected; Section 63 (1) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (Act No. XLIII of 1951) expressly lays down that no elector shall give more than one vote to any one candidate.
That the election at the polling stations in the Bombay City North Constituency was held on the 3 rd January, 1952.
That the counting of votes polled by the various candidates commenced on the 7th January 1952 and the same was completed on the 11th January 1952.