Principle Of Secrecy Of Ballots Is An Important Postulate Of Constitutional Democracy : SC [Read Judgment]
The Supreme Court has observed that the principle of secret ballot is an important postulate of constitutional democracy. The principle of secrecy of ballots is an important postulate of constitutional democracy whose aim is. The principle of secrecy of ballots is an important postulate of constitutional democracy whose aim is the achievement of this goal", observed a bench comprising Justices N V Ramana, Sanjiv Khanna and Krishna Murari in the case Laxmi Singh and others vs Rekha Singh and others. They referred to Section 94 of the Representation of Peoples Act to state that voter can voluntarily chose to waive the secrecy of ballot and argued that the HC has wrongly held that the voluntary waiver principle could not apply to the case in hand with respect to the members of the Zila Panchayat voting on a no confidence motion.
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