Presidential and Vice‑Presidential Elections Act, 1952

Bhagwati Prasad Dixit challenged the election of Rajiv Gandhi to the Lok Sabha on three grounds: alleged loss of Indian citizenship due to marriage and property in Italy, holding an office of profit by receiving a parliamentary salary, and the ineligibility of the Chief Election Commissioner. The High Court dismissed t…

Two petitioners, Charan Lal Sahu and Mithilesh Kumar, filed an election petition challenging the election of K.R. Narayanan as President of India. Their nomination papers were rejected because they did not satisfy the mandatory requirement of Section 5B(1)(a) of the Presidential and Vice‑Presidential Elections Act, 195…

The petitioner, Dharti Pakar Madan Lal Agrawal, filed a composite election‑petition‑cum‑writ petition under Article 32 challenging the constitutionality of Sections 5‑B and 5‑C of the Presidential and Vice‑Presidential Elections Act, 1952 as amended by the 1997 Ordinance. The Supreme Court held that such a composite pe…

Two election petitions were filed challenging the election of Dr. Shanker Dayal Sharma as President of India. Petition 1, filed by Mithilesh Kumar Sinha, claimed his nomination was wrongly rejected for not having the required ten proposers and ten seconders and argued that the signatures of common electors should remai…

In the 1987 Presidential election, R. Venkataraman was declared elected. Candidate Mithilesh Kumar filed an election petition under the Presidential and Vice‑Presidential Elections Act, 1952, alleging that a whip issued by the Congress (I) party amounted to undue influence and vitiated the election. The petition, howev…

Kaka Joginder Singh alias Dharti Pakad challenged the election of K.R. Narayanan as Vice‑President of India, alleging (i) that the Returning Officer wrongly accepted Narayanan's nomination despite substantial defects, and (ii) that a whip issued by the Congress party amounted to undue influence under the Presidential a…

The Supreme Court examined three election petitions challenging the election of Giani Zail Singh as President of India. The petitioners, who had not been duly nominated as candidates under the Presidential and Vice‑Presidential Elections Act, 1952, claimed the returned candidate exercised undue influence and was unsuit…

In the 2012 presidential election, petitioner Purno Agitok Sangma challenged the election of Pranab Mukherjee on the ground that Mukherjee held two "offices of profit" – Chairman of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) and Leader of the House in the Lok Sabha – at the time of filing his nomination, which would disqua…

Charan Lal Sahu, an advocate, filed an election petition and a special leave petition challenging the election of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam as President of India, alleging that his own nomination was wrongly rejected and that certain provisions of the Presidential and Vice‑Presidential Elections Act, 1952 were unconstitut…