Apex Digest

Poonam v. Dule Singh

(2025) INSC 1284

Whether a candidate's failure to disclose a conviction under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (sentencing her to one year of rigorous imprisonment) in her nomination affidavit, on the ground that the offence did not involve moral turpitude, renders her election void under Rule 24-A of the Madhya Pradesh Nagar Palika Nirvachan Niyam, 1994, and whether the Supreme Court should exercise its discretion under Article 136 of the Constitution to condone such non-disclosure.