(1) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.7112 OF 2009 Annarao s/o Govindrao Patil, Age 50 years, Occu: Advocate, r/o. Sham Nagar, Latur. ...PETITIONER VERSUS 1. The Chief Election Commission of India, Nirvachan Bhavan, New Delhi. 2. The State Election Commission, Maharashtra State, Mumbai. 3. The Returning Officer, Latur (City) Assembly Constituency No.235, Latur. ...RESPONDENTS ... Mr.N.P.Patil - Jamalpurkar, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Alok Sharma, Assistant Solicitor General of India, for respondent nos. 1 and 3. Mr. S.T.Shelke, Counsel, for respondent no.2. ... CORAM: NARESH H. PATIL & K.U. CHANDIWAL, JJ. DATE :6th NOVEMBER, 2009. *** PER COURT : 1. Heard. 2. Learned Counsel Mr. N.P.Patil Jamalpurkar submitted that the petitioner has (2) made allegation that the Electronic Voting Machine ( E.V.M.) used for polling purposes in the recently concluded Latur (City) Legislative Assembly Constituency elections were prepared and tampered in such a way that, the candidate contesting on the Congress (I) political party would be benefited, as the votes would be diverted to the Congress (I) candidate automatically. This petition was moved before the learned Vacation Judge on 20th Oct.,2009. We have perused the order passed by the learned Vacation Judge. 3. The election process of the Legislative Assembly Constituency of Latur City has been admittedly completed and the results are declared. 4. In the light of this, we find that the reliefs prayed for in this writ petition need not be considered in the proceedings of this writ petition. The writ petition,therefore, has become infructuous and it is dismissed as such. We clarify that we have not expressed any opinion on the merits of the issues raised by the petitioner in this petition. [K.U. CHANDIWAL, J.] [NARESH H.PATIL, J.] agp/wp7112-09