Manda Jaganath vs K.S.Rathnam & Ors

The Supreme Court addressed the validity of the Returning Officer's decision to reject the nomination of the first respondent due to incomplete Form B, holding that the High Court's intervention was justified as the errors were trivial and did not warrant treating the candidate as independent. The Court emphasized that the issue of symbol allotment is not a ground for an election petition under the Representation of the People Act, 1951. The appeal was allowed, reinforcing the jurisdictional limits of the High Court post-election process commencement under Article 226.