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Section 63: Forms and contents of petition.

The Uttar Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act, 1959State Act of Uttar Pradesh · Act 2 of 1959

(1) An election petition shall specify the ground or grounds on which the election of respondent is questioned and shall contain a concise statement of the material facts on which the petitioner relies, and shall set forth full particulars of any corrupt practice which the petitioner alleges, including as full a statement as possible as to the names of the parties alleged to have committed such corrupt practice and the date and place of the commission of each such practice.

(2) The petition and if there is any schedule or annexure to the petition, such schedule or annexure also, shall be signed by the petitioner and verified in the manner laid down in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, for the verification of pleadings.

(3) A petitioner shall join as respondent to his petition.

(a) where the petitioner claims a declaration under [***] section 64, all the contesting candidates, other than the petitioner, and in any other case all the returned candidates ; and

(b) any other candidate against whom allegations of any corrupt practice are made in the petition.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Uttar Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act, 1959
Section63
Marginal noteForms and contents of petition.
JurisdictionState of Uttar Pradesh
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • other. Del. by sec. 8 in English of U. P. Act no. 21 of 1964.

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