1 WP 5370OF10.sxw vks IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 5370 OF 2010 Santosh A Gharat .. Petitioner. -versus Chaya V. Patil and ors .. Respondents. Mr. Anilkumar Patil, for the Petitioner. Mr. R. M. Patne, AGP for respondent No. 3 and 4. CORAM: R.V. MORE, J. DATED: 20th July, 2010 P.C. 1. Heard Mr. Patil, learned counsel for the petitioner. Respondent No.1 is the Sarpanch of village Katai and the petitioner is a member of Village Panchayat. The petitioner filed an application u/s 36 of the Bombay Village Panchayat Act, 1958 (for short called as “the said Act”), to disqualify respondent No.1 Sarpanch on the ground that she failed to hold meeting of Gram Sabha within a period of two months from the commencement of financial year. 2. The impugned order shows that respondent No.1 Sarpanch held meeting of the Gram Sabha after 5 days period prescribed in section 8 of the said Act. Be that as it may under 2 WP 5370OF10.sxw section 36 of the said Act Sarpanch, Upsarpanch, as the case may be is liable to be disqualified ; in the event their failure to hold Panchayat meeting as prescribed by the section 7 of the said Act. Section 36 does not deal with the failure of Sarpanch or Upsarpanch as the case may to hold gram Sabha meeting. In my view, violation of the provisions of the section 8 of said Act will not result into disqualification u/s 36 of the Act. Petition has no merits. Same is accordingly dismissed. (R. V. MORE, J.)