Mr.Pranab Mukherjee’s Election as the President of India Upheld by the Supreme Court of India

Mr.Pranab Mukherjee

in the Presidential elections had filed a petition to the Supreme Court of India, challenging the election of Mr.Mukherjee, on the grounds that he had been holding office of profit as the Chairman of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

The Supreme Court on 5th December 2012, dismissed by a majority ruling Mr. P A Sangma’s above petition and upheld the election of Mr.Mukherjee as the President of India.

The following are the 5 Justices of the bench which heard Mr.Sangma’s petition:

Chief Justice Altamas Kabir,

Justice  P Sathasivam,

Justice S S Nijjar,

Justice  J Chelameswar and

Justice Ranjan Gogoi.