Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
[l-BJ An election petition was maintainable within a period of30 days. Elections had been held on January 29,2005. The election petitioner filed .the electipn Retition on February 28, 2005. ¥ per the provisions of the fJen-eralClauses Act;tIie daydn whicn the eleCtions were held'in January 29, had to be excluded for computing the period of limitation. Thus, the - .\l.leejion petition had been' filM -within the .period of limitation . Even otherwise it is fairly informed by the learned counsel for the parties that February 27, 2005 was a Sunday. Thus, the election petition had been filed on next opening day Le. February 28, 2005. Satya Narayan v.Addl. Commr., Vjjqin, 2008 (1) MPLJ 505 = AIR 2008 (NOC) 1032 MP. '''' See also: Mohammad [sha v. Vasudeo, 2008 (1) MPLJ