{"id":208863,"date":"2019-01-28T12:30:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T07:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=208863"},"modified":"2019-01-29T14:24:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T08:54:47","slug":"pat-hc-panchayat-elections-acceptance-of-affidavit-of-assets-and-liabilities-without-objection-raises-presumption-of-fact-regarding-validity-of-nomination-of-elected-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/01\/28\/pat-hc-panchayat-elections-acceptance-of-affidavit-of-assets-and-liabilities-without-objection-raises-presumption-of-fact-regarding-validity-of-nomination-of-elected-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat HC | Acceptance of affidavit of assets and liabilities \u2013 raises presumption of validity of elected candidate\u2019s nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Patna High Court:<\/strong> The Division Bench of Amreshwar Pratap Sahi, CJ and Anjana Mishra, J. dismissed an appeal challenging election of a village mukhiya.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Appellant herein had filed an election petition assailing the election of Respondent 3 as mukhiya of a village on the ground of non-disclosure of his assets and liabilities as per the Bihar Panchayat Raj Act, 2006. This petition was dismissed and the writ petition challenging Election Commission\u2019s order was also dismissed. Hence, the present appeal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Counsel for the appellant contended that nomination paper of Respondent 3 was improperly accepted as he had not filled up details of his assets and liabilities. An affidavit was filed later declaring such assets and liabilities to supplement respondent\u2019s nomination papers but the same was a manipulated document inasmuch as it had been manually stamped while other documents were stamped through a franking machine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Learned counsel for the respondent objected to the maintainability of election petition for not being verified in accordance with Rule 108 of the Bihar Panchayat Raj Rules, 2006. Further, the sole ground raised in the petition was non-disclosure of assets; no challenge was raised in relation to the affidavit filed by the respondent. The subject affidavit was accepted with the nomination papers before the Assistant Returning Officer who scrutinized the same and thereafter declared Respondent 3\u2019s nomination valid. The nomination could not have been declared to be valid in the absence of requisite declaration and therefore there was a valid presumption under the law regarding the existence of this fact.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court observed that the casual manner in which petition had been verified was a serious defect. Argument regarding the non-existence of affidavit could not have been appreciated without a petition being verified on the basis of records available. Further, once the defense of supplemental affidavit had been raised, then the burden lay on the election petitioner to dislodge the same by summoning the Assistant Returning Officer.\u00a0 It was held that the acceptance of affidavit by the Returning Officer without any objection from the appellant or election petitioner provided a clear presumption of fact regarding the validity of nomination of Respondent 3. Lastly, since the issue regarding stamping of an affidavit was not pleaded or advanced either before the learned Single Judge or the Election Tribunal, therefore it could not be raised at this juncture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In view of the above, the appeal was dismissed for being bereft of merits.[Ram Roop Devi v. State of Bihar,\u00a0<b>2<a href=\"http:\/\/scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/n8Lq4rAq\">019 SCC OnLine Pat 44<\/a><\/b>, Order dated 11-01-2019]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patna High Court: The Division Bench of Amreshwar Pratap Sahi, CJ and Anjana Mishra, J. dismissed an appeal challenging election of a <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[29879,2881,33454,33452,33453,29807,4041],"class_list":["post-208863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-affidavit","tag-Assets","tag-elected-candidate","tag-liabilities","tag-nomination","tag-panchayat-elections","tag-validity"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium 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