1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 7073 OF 2008 Sidharth Raghunath Gaikwad. ..... ..... Petitioner. Versus The State of Maharashtra & Ors.. ..... ..... Respondents. Mr. Amit B. Borkar for the Petitioner. Mr. R. P. Behere, Addl. GP for the State. CORAM : BILAL NAZKI and J. P. DEVADHAR, JJ. DATED : 17TH OCTOBER, 2008. P.C.: This petition has been filed by the petitioner challenging notice dated 24th September, 2008 drawing the schedule for election to the Swami Samarth Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana Limited. This notice is challenged on the ground that in terms of Rule 16 of the Maharashtra Specified Co-operative Societies Election to Committee Rules, 1971 there should have been a gap of not less than 30 days between the publication of the voters list and the notification for giving the programme of the election. Rule 16 lays down that the schedule of election shall be notified not earlier than 30 days of the date of display of the final list of voters of a society under Rule 7. 2. It may be pointed out that the voters list was published on 25th August, 2 2008 and the programme for election was notified on 24th September, 2008. As such, the election programme was notified on 30th day after the publication of the final voters list. The Supreme Court in a judgment in the case of Jai Charan Lal Anal v/s The State of U.P. And others, reported in AIR 1968 SC 5, has stated “`Not earlier than thirty days' means that it should not be the 29th day, but there is nothing to show that the language excludes the 30th day from computation”. For this reason, we do not find any merit in the writ petition, which is accordingly dismissed. Sd/- (BILAL NAZKI, J.) Sd/- (J. P. DEVADHAR, J.)