{"id":152233,"date":"2010-10-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/abdul-manaf-vs-state-election-commissioner-on-8-october-2010"},"modified":"2017-06-30T03:15:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T21:45:57","slug":"abdul-manaf-vs-state-election-commissioner-on-8-october-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/abdul-manaf-vs-state-election-commissioner-on-8-october-2010","title":{"rendered":"Abdul Manaf vs State Election Commissioner on 8 October, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Abdul Manaf vs State Election Commissioner on 8 October, 2010<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nWP(C).No. 30887 of 2010(I)\n\n\n1. ABDUL MANAF, THOTTATHIL HOUSE,\n                      ...  Petitioner\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. STATE ELECTION COMMISSIONER, OFFICE OF\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. RETURNING OFFICER, G 70, ELAKAMON\n\n3. ASSISTANT RETURNING OFFICER,\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.PULIKKOOL ABUBACKER\n\n                For Respondent  :SRI.MURALI PURUSHOTHAMAN, SC,K.S.E.COMM\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice P.N.RAVINDRAN\n\n Dated :08\/10\/2010\n\n O R D E R\n                          P.N.RAVINDRAN, J.\n                           ---------------------------\n                      W.P.(C) No. 30887 OF 2010\n                           --------------------------\n              Dated this the 8th day of October, 2010\n\n                             J U D G M E N T\n<\/pre>\n<p>      The petitioner, a resident of Ward No.15 of Elakamon Grama<\/p>\n<p>Panchayat in Thiruvananthapuram district, submitted his nomination<\/p>\n<p>paper on 30.9.2010 for contesting in the ensuing elections. At the<\/p>\n<p>time of scrutiny on 5.10.2010, the Returning Officer rejected the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner&#8217;s nomination paper on the ground that the relevant portion<\/p>\n<p>of the electoral roll relating to the petitioner was not enclosed along<\/p>\n<p>with the nomination paper. The said decision was communicated to<\/p>\n<p>the petitioner by Ext.P2.       Ext.P2 is under challenge in this writ<\/p>\n<p>petition. The main contention raised by the petitioner is that no<\/p>\n<p>provision of law enjoins a candidate who is contesting in the ward in<\/p>\n<p>which he is an elector, to produce a copy of the electoral roll along<\/p>\n<p>with the nomination paper and therefore the rejection of the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner&#8217;s nomination paper is arbitrary and illegal.<\/p>\n<p>      2. The Apex Court and this Court has consistently held in a<\/p>\n<p>series of decisions that once the election process has commenced,<\/p>\n<p>individual grievances cannot be redressed by way of writ petitions<\/p>\n<p>and that the remedy of the candidate whose nomination has been<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">WPC No.30887\/2010                    2<\/span><\/p>\n<p>illegally rejected is to challenge the election of the returned candidate<\/p>\n<p>by way of an election petition. Further, as per the election schedule<\/p>\n<p>notified by the State Election Commission, the list of valid<\/p>\n<p>nominations was published yesterday. Sri. Murali Purushothaman,<\/p>\n<p>learned standing counsel for the State Election Commission submits<\/p>\n<p>that the work of printing ballot papers has also commenced. In such<\/p>\n<p>circumstances, I am of the opinion that no relief could be granted to<\/p>\n<p>the writ petitioner.\n<\/p>\n<p>      The writ petition fails and is accordingly dismissed without<\/p>\n<p>prejudice to the right of the petitioner to challenge the election of the<\/p>\n<p>returned candidate, if so advised, in other appropriate proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>                                                  P.N.RAVINDRAN,<br \/>\n                                                        (JUDGE)<br \/>\nvps<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">WPC No.30887\/2010    3<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court Abdul Manaf vs State Election Commissioner on 8 October, 2010 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WP(C).No. 30887 of 2010(I) 1. ABDUL MANAF, THOTTATHIL HOUSE, &#8230; Petitioner Vs 1. STATE ELECTION COMMISSIONER, OFFICE OF &#8230; Respondent 2. RETURNING OFFICER, G 70, ELAKAMON 3. ASSISTANT RETURNING OFFICER, For Petitioner :SRI.PULIKKOOL ABUBACKER [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-kerala-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Abdul Manaf vs State Election Commissioner on 8 October, 2010 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/abdul-manaf-vs-state-election-commissioner-on-8-october-2010\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Abdul Manaf vs State Election Commissioner on 8 October, 2010 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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