From the Judgment and Order dated 23rd December, 1980 of the Madras High Court at Madras in Election Petition No.
Dr. Y.S. Chitale, P.N. Ramalngam and A.T.M. Sampath for the Appellant.
He argued that the parents and the sisters of the respondent were shown to be Christians and the respondent though obviously a Christian himself was pretending to be, a member of the Scheduled Castes for the purpose of gaining some advantages.
He was in fact a sitting member of the Lok Sabha having been elected from the same reserved companystituency at the previous general election also, But the verdict of the people was number sufficient for the appellant, S. Anbalagan, who secured 1,76,240 votes in the January 1980 poll and lost the election.
1 of 1980.
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He wanted the verdict of an Election Tribunal on the question whether the respondent was a Charistian and number a member of the Scheduled Castes, as claimed by him.
C. Bhandare, K. Rajendra Chowdhary and K.S. Chowdhary for the Respondents.
So he filed an election petition questioning the election on that ground.
Dr. Chitale, learned companynsel for the appellant, canvassed the finding of the Election Tribunal that the respondent was a Hindu Adi Dravida and, therefore, a member of the Scheduled Castes.
The Election Tribunal on an eleborate companysideration of the evidence held that the appellant belonged to the Scheduled Castes and, on that finding, upheld the election.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by CHINNAPPA REDDY, J. 3, 26, 112 adult men and women voters of Rasipuram Parliamentary Constituency reserved for the Scheduled Castes accepted the candidature of the first Respondent, B. Devarajan for the reserved seat, apparently companysidered him as a member of the Scheduled Castes, voted for him and elected him to the Lok Sabha, by a companyvincing majority of nearly sixty thousand votes at the election held in January 1980.
V. Rangam for the Respondent No.
544 of 1981.
Anbalagan has preferred this appeal.
And, it was number the first time.
