The respondent forwarded his numberinations by registered post to the Secretary on May 17, 1991, and May 18, 1991, respectively.
From the Judgment and Order dated 25.6.1991 of the Bombay High Court in W.P. No.
V. Mehta, A.K. Sanghi, Manjul Bajpai and S. Grover for the Respondent.
These numberinations were rejected on the ground that they were received after the time fixed for the receipt of the numberinations and the name of the respondent was number included in the list of the candidates who had filed their numberinations for election to the Council.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal No.
2 is the Secretary of Appellant No.1, Institute.
This appeal is being disposed of, by companysent, at the stage of granting of special leave in view of the urgency.
Actually, they were received by the Secretary of the Council by registered post on May 23, 1991, and May 27, 1991, respectively.
Appellant No.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by KANIA, J. Leave granted.
Gopal Subramanium, Manjul Bajpai and S. Grover for the Intervenor.
1 is the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, a body incorporated under the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949, hereinafter referred to as the Act .
3573 of 1991.
The final time for the receipt of the numberinations ,was fixed as 5.00 p.m. on 20th May, 1991, and it was extended to 5.00 p.m. on 21st May, 1991.
The numberinations, however, did number reach the Secretary by 5.00 p.m. on May 21, 1991, being the final time and date prescribed for the receipt of the numberinations.
Ramaswamy, Attorney General, K.K. Jain, G. Banerjee, Pramod Dayal and Ajay K. Jain for the Appellants.
1926 of 1991.
Appellant No.
Counsel heard.
