1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 5815 OF 2009 Mr.Manoj Vasant Khedkar. .... Petitioner. Versus The Collector, Raigad at Alibaug & Ors. .... Respondents. Mr. Uday P. Warunjikar for the Petitioner. Mrs. M. P. Thakur, AGP for the State. Mr. Ganesh Gole for Respondent No.3. CORAM: BILAL NAZKI and MRS.V.K.TAHILRAMANI, JJ. DATED : 7TH JULY, 2009. P. C.: The election of respondent No.3 as President of respondent No.4 is challenged by way of this writ petition mainly on the ground of defection. Learned Counsel for the respondent submits that an alternate remedy is available to the petitioner under Section 7 of the Maharashtra Local Authority Members' Disqualification Act,1986. 2. After hearing the learned Counsel for the parties and also after going through Section 7 of the Maharashtra Local Authority Members' Disqualification Act,1986 and the pleadings in the writ petition, we feel that the petitioner has an efficacious remedy available to him under 2 Section 7 of the Act. As such, we decline to entertain the writ petition. 3. The writ petition is, accordingly, dismissed with liberty to the petitioner to take an alternate remedy. Sd/- (BILAL NAZKI, J.) Sd/- (MRS.V.K.TAHILRAMANI, J.)