(1) wp8622-11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO. 8622 OF 2011 Sominath Pundlik @ Baban Kolhe PETITIONER VERSUS The State of Maharashtra & others RESPONDENTS ..... Mr. N.L. Jadhav, advocate for the Petitioner. Mr. V.D. Rakh, A.G.P. for the Respondent-State. ..... CORAM : B.R. GAVAI AND M.T. JOSHI, JJ. DATED : 16th NOVEMBER, 2011 ORAL ORDER: 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 (2) wp8622-11 provision, unless the said provision is held to be either unconstitutional or bad in law. In that view of the matter, the Writ Petition is rejected. [M.T. JOSHI, J.] [B.R. GAVAI, J.] npj/wp8622-11