IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. C.W.P. No. 12984 of 2008 DATE OF DECISION : 01.10.2008 Narinderjit Kaur .... PETITIONER Versus State of Punjab and others ..... RESPONDENTS CORAM :- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE NIRMALJIT KAUR Present: Mr. S.S. Salar, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. M.S. Sindhu, Addl. A.G., Punjab, for respondents No.1 and 3. Mr. Mohd. Yousaf, Advocate, for respondent No.2. * * * SATISH KUMAR MITTAL , J. ( Oral ) The petitioner, who was elected as a Panch of Gram Panchayat Village Ibrahimpura, District Sangrur, against the seat reserved for women, has filed this petition under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India, for setting aside the election of respondent No.2 as Sarpanch of the aforesaid Gram Panchayat. It is the case of the petitioner that office of the Sarpanch of aforesaid Gram Panchayat was reserved for women. It is further case of the petitioner that respondent No.2, though a woman; but has been elected as CWP No. 12984 of 2008 -2- Panch against the seat reserved for Scheduled Caste Women category, was not eligible to contest the election of the office of Sarpanch, which is reserved for `women'. This controversy has already been decided by this Court in CWP No. 13738 of 2008, titled as Sukhjit Kaur versus State of Punjab and others, decided on 5.8.2008, wherein it has been held that a Panch elected against the reserved category of Scheduled Caste (women) is fully eligible to contest the election of Sarpanch, which is reserved for Women. Accordingly, in view of the decision of this Court in the aforesaid CWP No. 13738 of 2008, there is no merit in this petition and the same is, hereby, dismissed. ( SATISH KUMAR MITTAL ) JUDGE October 01, 2008 ( NIRMALJIT KAUR ) ndj JUDGE