1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY, BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.2595 OF 2010 Godavari w/o Hanmantrao Bhadange .. Petitioner Versus The State of Maharashtra through the Secretary, Rural Minister, Mantralaya, Mumbai and ors. .. Respondents Shri G.N.Chincholkar, Advocate for petitioner Mrs.A.V.Gondhalekar, A.G.P. for respondent Nos.1, 3 and 5 Shri S.T.Shelke, Advocate for respondents 2 and 4 CORAM : P.V. HARDAS AND S.V. GANGAPURWALA, JJ DATE : 24th March 2010 PER COURT : 1. This is a petition which questions the wrongful rejection of the nomination form of the petitioner who was desirous of contesting the village panchayat elections of village Chinchordi Dagadwadi, Taluka Himayatnagar, District Nanded on the ground that the petitioner had not tendered the validity certificate within the time prescribed. 2. On notice being issued to the respondents, Shri S.T.Shelke, learned Counsel for the respondents 2 and 4 has produced before us the record i.e. the original nomination paper of the petitioner. The nomination paper has been rejected on the ground that the petitioner had not submitted the validity certificate. The last date for submission of the nomination papers was 17th March 2010 and the scrutiny of the 2 nomination papers was on 18.3.2010. The scrutiny as per the schedule was to begin at 11.00 a.m. It appears that the petitioner who was not possessing the validity certificate at that time, by an application in writing requested the Returning Officer to grant her time until 5.00 p.m. for producing the validity certificate. It also appears that since the scrutiny was over by 3.00 p.m. and though the petitioner had produced the validity certificate at 4.00 p.m. the Returning Officer had not accepted the validity certificate as the nomination form of the petitioner had already been rejected. 3. The last date of submission of the nomination forms and the date of scrutiny is already over. The polling is scheduled on 1st April 2010. In that light of the matter, therefore, we dismiss this petition and relegate the petitioner to avail the remedies available to the petitioner in law of challenging wrongful rejection of her nomination paper. No costs. ( S.V.GANGAPURWALA, J.) ( P.V. HARDAS, J.) (vvr/2595.10wp)