1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY, BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.2600 OF 2010 Poshanbai Mallu Paytekar .. Petitioner Versus The Election Commission, Maharashtra State, Mumbai, Through its Chief Election Commissioner and another .. Respondents Shri A.V.Patil, Advocate holding for Shri V.D.Gunale, Advocate for petitioner Shri S.T.Shelke, Advocate for respondent No.1 Mrs.A.V.Gondhalekar, A.G.P. for respondents 2 CORAM : P.V. HARDAS AND S.V. GANGAPURWALA, JJ DATE : 24th March 2010 PER COURT : 1. The nomination form of the petitioner came to be rejected on the ground that the petitioner had not produced the validity certificate within the time provided by the Returning Officer. 2. The last date for submission of the nomination form was 17th March 2010. The petitioner had not submitted validity certificate and at the time of scrutiny, submitted an application requesting for time until 7.00 p.m. The Returning Officer granted time till 5.00 p.m. for production of the original validity certificate as the submission of a fax copy of the validity certificate was not in accordance with law. Thereafter, the petitioner 2 again submitted an application requesting for time which came to be rejected by the Returning Officer. Since the nomination form was not accompanied with the document as per the requirement of law, the Returning Officer rejected the nomination form. 3. In such circumstances, we relegate the petitioner to avail the alternate remedies available to the petitioner in law and accordingly dismiss the petition with no order as to costs. ( S.V.GANGAPURWALA, J.) ( P.V. HARDAS, J.) (vvr/2600.10wp)