IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.6106 of 2006 1 MD.MOINUDDIN 2 Md. Rahmat Ali (both sons of Late Sahid Saheb) 3 Md. Ainul Haque son of Md. Islam 4 Md. Manzoor son of Md. Islam 5 Md. Ishaque son of late Abdul All residents of village Samaspur (Minat Nagar) PO Bank, Police State Mufassil district Munger. Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. The State Election Commission through the State Election Commissioner, Bihar Patna 3. The District Magistrate cum District Election Officer, Munger 4. The District Election Officer, Panchayati Raj, Munger 5. The Sub-divisional Officer, Munger 6. the Block Development Officer, Jamalpur, Munger 7. The Circle Officer, Jamalpur, Munger ----------- 5 20-01-2009 Heard the parties. Petitioners claim to be public-spirited persons and in public interest they claim that concerned authorities must correct voters list to ensure that omission of earlier existing 1100 voters of village Samaspur, ward no. 1, Gram Panchayat Bank, Jamalpur block, district Munger is subjected to necessary correction. The eligible citizen has a legal right to be a voter of the concerned area where he resides. If there has been large scale omission of already existing voters on account of mistake, all the concerned authorities are directed to take steps to correct such omission after verifying the facts. Such correction, if required, to correct large scale mistakes must be done within a period of six months and in any case before the next election in the concerned area. This order should be complied in its spirit by all the concerned - 2 - authorities as soon as representation is filed to this effect along with a copy of this order. It is made clear that individual claims of citizens to be included as fresh voter shall not be governed by this order and for that the individual claimants must file separate applications as required by law. It is further clarified that if the omission of such names is on account of delimitation and the area has gone in the some other municipal area then also such persons deserved to be voters for the concerned municipal area. This writ petition stands disposed of. BKS/ (Shiva Kirti Singh,J.) (J. N. Singh, J.)