Case Law Analysis
|Gauhati High Court
Section 23 RP Act, 1950 | Petitioners Must Exhaust Electoral Roll Correction Remedies Before Filing Writ Petitions Under Article 226, Even Amid Imminent Polling : Gauhati HC
The Gauhati High Court has ruled that voters deleted from electoral rolls cannot bypass statutory remedies under Section 23 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950 by directly approaching the High Court under Article 226 - even when elections are days away. This reinforces the principle that administrative纠错 mechanisms must be exhausted before constitutional remedies are invoked, affecting millions of voters in Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, and Arunachal Pradesh who rely on electoral roll corrections.