1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.8452 OF 2006 Ashok Kondiba Shelar ..Petitioner Vs. Prakash Nana Sawant and Ors. ..Respondents Mr.Rahul S. Kate for the petitioner CORAM : A.P.DESHPANDE, J CORAM : A.P.DESHPANDE, J CORAM : A.P.DESHPANDE, J DATED : 21ST DECEMBER, 2006 DATED : 21ST DECEMBER, 2006 DATED : 21ST DECEMBER, 2006 P.C.: 1. The present petitioner was elected as a Sarpanch of the Village Panchayat sometime in the year 2005. A requisite number of members of the Panchayat gave a notice of No Confidence to the Tahsildar calling upon him to convene a meeting as is required by s.35 of the Bombay Village Panchayat Act. The notice of No Confidence was given to the Tahsildar under the signature of the required number of members. The Tahsildar convened the meeting and in the said meeting No Confidence motion was carried by requisite majority and the petitioner thus came to be unseated. Aggrieved by 2 the same, the petitioner preferred a dispute before the Collector, Pune calling in question legality and validity of the meeting wherein the business of No Confidence motion was transacted. The Collector rejected the dispute and the appeal filed by the petitioner before the Commissioner against the order of Collector has also been dismissed. The said orders are challenged in the instant petition. 2. Perused the order. The same does not suffer from any infirmity. There is no merit in the petition and the same is rejected. ( SHRI A.P.DESHPANDE, J ) ( SHRI A.P.DESHPANDE, J ) ( SHRI A.P.DESHPANDE, J )