IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.9541 of 2009 TAPENDRA KUMAR SINGH, aged about….years, son of Sri Dineshwar Prasad Singh, resident of village- Saidpur, P.S. Manasi, District- Khagaria Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR through the Principal Secretary Rural Development Department Govt. of Bihar, New Secretariat, Patna 2. The State Election Commission, through the Chief Election Commissioner, Bihar, Patna 3. The District Magistrate-cum-Collector, Khagaria 4. Smt. Punam Devi, wife of Shri Bijendra Kumar resident of village Ekania, P.S. Manasi, District-Khagaria. ----------- 2 11.08.2009 Having heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned counsel for the State and learned counsel representing for the State Election Commission. The submission made at the bar by learned counsel representing the petitioner stands fully answered by a decision which has been rendered by a Division Bench in the case of Manoj Bind @ Manoj Kumar Bind versus the State of Bihar and Ors. in C.W.J.C. No. 4844 of 2008 dated 29th of September, 2008. The disqualification of the petitioner under Section 136(1)(g) of the Bihar Panchayat Raj Act (State Legislation) has to be inconformity with the said provisions of the Act and the Peoples Representation Act has no bearing on the same. 2 The ratio of the case decided in Manoj Bind (supra) fully covers the answers the submission made at the bar on behalf of the petitioner. There is no merit in this application. The application is, accordingly, dismissed. Bibhash (Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J.)