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Bombay High Court Upholds Disqualification of Municipal Councillors for Defection Under Maharashtra Local Authority Members Disqualification Act, 1985. Petitioners who contested as independent candidates after being denied party tickets were held to have voluntarily given up party membership.

The judgment concerns three writ petitions filed under Article 227 of the Constitution of India challenging identical orders dated 18.03.2015 passed b...

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Bombay High Court Upholds Disqualification of Councilor Under Maharashtra Local Authority Members Disqualification Act, 1986 for Joining Rival Party. Newspaper Reports of Joining Shiv Sena Constitute Sufficient Evidence of Voluntarily Giving Up Membership Under Section 3(1)(a) of the Act.

The Petitioner, Mahesh Vishnupant Kothe, was a councilor of the Solapur Municipal Corporation elected in 2012 on an Indian National Congress ticket. H...

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Bombay High Court Upholds Disqualification of Councillors for Defection Under Maharashtra Local Authorities Members' Disqualification Act, 1986. Petitioners disqualified for remainder of term for voluntarily giving up membership of political party by joining rival party after election.

The judgment concerns two writ petitions filed by elected councillors of the Municipal Council, Loha, District Nanded, challenging their disqualificat...

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Bombay High Court Upholds Disqualification of MLA for Anti-Party Voting Under Tenth Schedule. Speaker's Order Disqualifying Petitioner for Voluntarily Giving Up Party Membership and Voting Contrary to Whip Upheld as Valid.

The petitioner, Shri Matanhy Saldanha, was a Member of the Goa Legislative Assembly from Cortalim, belonging to the United Goan Democratic Party (UGDP...