No material to indicate votes cast in name of dead people in Dhule LS seat: HC
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Bombay high court's Aurangabad bench has dismissed BJP leader and former minister of state for defence Subhash Bhamre's election petition that Congress nominee Shobha Bachchav's election as MP from Dhule Parliamentary Constituency in Nashik district in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls be set aside on the grounds of irregularities.
The court allowed Bachchav's application in the same matter seeking dismissal of Bhamre's election petition.
Bhamre polled over 5.80 lakh votes as against over 5.83 lakh votes polled by Bachchav. The victory margin was over 3,800 votes. Of the six assembly segments that fall in Dhule Parliamentary Constituency, Bhamre focused his election petition on the polling in Malegaon Central segment from where he could muster only 4,542 votes as against over 1.98 votes polled by Bachchav.
Bhamre contended that a large number of votes were cast in the name of dead voters, who continued to figure in the electoral roll, and multiple votes were cast in the name of same people in different booths. All these votes were cast in favour of the winning candidate, he contended.
The bench of Justice Arun Pednekar, however, held on June 13 that there was no material placed on record to indicate that votes were cast in the name of dead people.
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Similarly, there was no material to substantiate the allegation of multiple votes cast in the name of same people.
"By merely having names of dead people on the electoral roll this court will not presume that votes are cast in their names. The polling agents in the booth are aware of the votes cast by people and an affidavit of polling agents present in the polling station stating that votes are cast against dead persons would at least indicate that voting has taken place against the name of dead persons," the bench said while pointing out that there was no affidavit by polling agents that they have noticed votes being cast in the name of dead people or that the polling agent had raised objection to the casting of votes in the name of dead people.
The bench cited provisions under the Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961 relating to appointment of polling agents and safeguards against impersonation, and ruled, "Presently, there is no material before the court to indicate that large number of persons have cast votes against the names of dead people so as to materially affect the election and this court would not enter into inquiry of the same."
"In the election petition, the pleadings have to be precise, specific and unambiguous. If the allegations contained in Election Petition do not set out grounds as contemplated in Section 100 and do not conform to the requirement of Section 81 and 83 of the Act, the Election Petition is liable to be rejected Under Order VII, Rule 11 of Code of Civil Procedure," the bench held.
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