FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO. 8875 OF 2011 Sachin Ashok Wagh Vs. Scheduled Tribe Certificate Scrutiiny Committee, Aurangabad and others." WITH WRIT PETITION NO.8880/2011 Shabana Fakir Mohd.Rangrej V/s The State & others. Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram appearances, Court's Orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. 1 In WP 8875/11: Mr. A.B. Madke, Advocate h/f Shri M.S. Deshmukh, Advocate for petitioner in WP 8875/11 Whri S.K. Tambe, AGP for respondent no.1. Shri U.S. Malte, Advocate for respondent nos.2 & 3. In WP 8880/11: Shri P.F. Patni, Advocate for petitioner. Shri K.M. Suryawanshi, AGP for respondent no.1. Shri S.T. Shelke, Advocate for respondent nos.2 & 3. CORAM :- B.R. GAVAI & M.T. JOSHI, JJ. DATE :- 21st NOVEMBER, 2011. PER COURT :- Heard learned counsel for the parties. Section 9-A of the Maharashtra Municipalities, Nagar Panchayats and Industrial Townships Act, 1965 has suffered an amendment on 2nd May, 2008 by way Amendment Act No. 13/2008. Vide the said amendment, the earlier provision which permitted the validity certificate to be produced subsequently within a period of 4 months from the election, has been deleted. The statutory provision which exists on the statute book today, mandates the validity certificate to be submitted alongwith the FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO. 8875 OF 2011 Sachin Ashok Wagh Vs. Scheduled Tribe Certificate Scrutiiny Committee, Aurangabad and others." WITH WRIT PETITION NO.8880/2011 Shabana Fakir Mohd.Rangrej V/s The State & others. Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram appearances, Court's Orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. 2 nomination form. We cannot issue any direction to the authorities to act in contravention of the statutory provision, unless the said provision is held to be either unconstitutional or bad in law. In that view of the matter, the writ petitions are rejected. [M.T. JOSHI,J.] [B.R. GAVAI, J.] ndk/c2111115