FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 13413 OF 2011 IN WRIT PETITION NO. 1644 OF 2004 " Nahunabi Abdul Karim Vs. The State of Maharashtra and others." Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram appearances, Court's Orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. 1 Mr. S.C. Yeramwar, Advocate holding for Mr. A.S. Golegaonkar, Advocate for petitioner. Mr. S.K. Tambe, AGP for respondent No.1. Mr. S.T. Shelke, Advocate for respondent No.2. Mr. B.L. Sagar Killarikar, Advocate for respondent No.3. CORAM :- B.R. GAVAI & M.T. JOSHI, JJ. DATE :- 15th NOVEMBER, 2011. PER COURT :- 1] 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 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 civil application is rejected. [M.T. JOSHI,J.] [B.R. GAVAI, J.] grt/-