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No EC nod needed for voter to sue candidate over false information: Supreme Court

No EC nod needed for voter to sue candidate over false information: Supreme Court

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A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu quashed the Karnataka HC order which had held that “right given to the voter is only to file an election petition, and not to register a private complaint of crime which is the duty of the Election Commission, if it wants to do so”.

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