CWP no.8238 of 2011 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition.No.8238 of 2011 Date of decision: 10.5.2011 Satish Kumar ...Petitioner Versus State of Haryana and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE ADARSH KUMAR GOEL ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE AJAY KUMAR MITTAL 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. Whether to be referred to the reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? Present: Mr. S.K.S.Bedi, Advocate for the petitioner. Adarsh Kumar Goel, ACJ. This petition seeks a direction to rectify mistakes in the electoral rolls and for postponement of date of polling for the election of the Municipal Corporation, Gurgaon. Case of the petitioner is that electoral rolls for the municipal election suffer from number of irregularities such as same address for about 330 voters i.e. House No.235, Ward No.12, Gurgaon, about 700 voters from Ward No.16 being shown as voters in Ward No.15 and some voters of Ward No.15 being shown as voters in Ward No.14. We have heard learned counsel for the petitioner. 1 CWP no.8238 of 2011 The superintendence, direction and control of preparation of electoral rolls and conduct of elections of municipalities is vested in the State Election Commission. The errors in the voters lists can be brought to the notice of the said authority. In Lakshmi Charan Sen and others v. A.K.M.Hassan Uzzaman and others, (1985) 4 SCC 689, it was observed that it is for the Election Commission to oversee the revision of electoral rolls and till it is so done, the electoral roll has to be continued to avoid a vacuum. (Paras 21-22). The Court ought not to interfere with the process of election as the elections should be held as per time schedule and disputes arising out of elections can be gone into after the elections are over. (Para 26). In view of alternative remedy, we do not find any ground to go into the merits of this petition. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of. (Adarsh Kumar Goel) Acting Chief Justice May 10, 2011 (Ajay Kumar Mittal) ‘gs’ Judge 2