If appeal is possible, what is the competent body to hear the appeal?
India
HANDBOOK FOR CANDIDATES 2009
(At Elections where ElectronicVoting Machines are used)
CHAPTER – XIX MISCELLANEOUS
11. BAR TO INTERFERENCE BYCOURTS IN ELECTORAL MATTERS
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11.3 All doubts and disputesrelating to an election can be raised only in an\ election petition presentedto the High Court of the State/Union Territory concerned after the election isover in accordance with the provisions of Part VI of the Representation of thePeople Act, 1951 and in no other manner.
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http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/ElectoralLaws/HandBooks/Handbook_for_Candidates.pdf
Representation of the PeopleAct, 1951 Part VI
Representation of the PeopleAct, 1951
80. Election petitions.—No election shall becalled in question except by an election petition presented in accordance withthe provisions of this Part.
80A. High Court to tryelection petitions.—(1) The Court having jurisdiction to try an election petitionshall be the High Court.
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Part VI, Article 81
(1) An election petitioncalling in question any election may be presented on one or more of the groundsspecified in sub-section (1) of section 100 and section 101 to the High Courtby any candidate at such election or any elector within forty-five days from,but not earlier than the date of election of the returned candidate, or ifthere are more than one returned candidate at the election and the dates oftheir election are different, the later of those two dates
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