1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 5090 OF 2009 Shankar Mahadeo Patil & Anr. .... Petitioners. Versus The State of Maharashtra & Ors. .... Respondents. -: ALONG WITH :- WRIT PETITION NO. 5619 OF 2009 Sarjerao Dinkarrao Mane & Ors. .... Petitioners. Versus The State of Maharashtra & Ors. .... Respondents. -: ALONG WITH :- WRIT PETITION NO. 5621 OF 2009 Vishwas Chandan Nejdar & Anr. .... Petitioners. Versus The State of Maharashtra & Ors. .... Respondents. Mr. Rajesh S. Datar for the Petitioners in WP 5090/2009. Mr. S. S. Patwardhan for the Petitioners in WP 5619/2009. Mr. S. S. Patwardhan for the Petitioners in WP 5621/2009. Mr. C.R.Sonawane, AGP for the State. Mr.Amit B. Borkar for Respondent No.3. CORAM: BILAL NAZKI and MRS.V.K.TAHILRAMANI, JJ. DATED : 7TH JULY, 2009. 2 P. C.: Heard learned Counsel for the parties and disposed of with their consent. 2. The petitioners are aggrieved of the impugned judgment and order dated 15th June, 2009 passed by the Collector in Application No.1 and in Application No.3 in terms of Rule 6(4) of the Maharashtra Specified Co- operative Societies Elections to Committee Rules, 1971. 3. The main grievance, it appears at the time of hearing, is that the Collector has not deleted the names of 317 persons from the final voters list, who have been already died. The Collector has deleted 7 of them and with respect of 310 he had ordered the Society itself to have a detailed inquiry in respect of 310 death certificates and after inquiry he directed to delete that. Learned Counsel for the petitioners submits that this was a job to be done by the Collector and could not be left to the Society. The Society has also conceded that 310 death certificates given by the petitioners were genuine and those 310 deaths have taken place. 4. Therefore, we direct that the names of 310 persons, whose death certificates are given, shall be deleted by the Collector from the Voters List immediately and he shall issue a fresh list after deleting these 310 names within two days from the receipt of this order. 3 5. Since the Collector by his order had ordered deletion of the voters who had died, therefore, deletion of 310 members specifically by the Collector in pursuance of this order would not have any effect on the election. 6. In view of the above, all the three writ petitions are disposed of. Sd/- (BILAL NAZKI, J.) Sd/- (MRS.V.K.TAHILRAMANI, J.)