FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO. 8861 OF 2010 Office Notes, Office Court's or Judge's orders Memoranda of Coram or directions and Registrar's orders. appearances, Court's Orders. 1 Mr. A.B. Kale, Advocate for the petitioner CORAM :- B.R. GAVAI & A.A. SAYED, JJ. DATE :- 29TH SEPTEMBER, 2010. 1] Rule. 2] Heard the learned counsel for the parties on the question of interim relief. If interim relief in favour of petitioner is continued, the same would forestall the election of Sarpanch and as such, the Grampanchayat would be rendered without Sarpanch during the pendency of petition. That would frustrate the entire purpose of Panchayat-Raj for which the Constitution amendment has been effected. 3] Even otherwise, prima facie, we find that in view of second proviso to Sub-Rule 4-A of Rule 2-A, in case of non availability of a woman from scheduled caste category, the post will have to be filled in from a candidate belonging to scheduled caste. The Rule takes care of a situation in case a woman candidate belonging to that reserved category is not available for which the post of Sarpanch is reserved. Since the wider FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO. 8861 OF 2010 Office Notes, Office Court's or Judge's orders Memoranda of Coram or directions and Registrar's orders. appearances, Court's Orders. 2 questions are sought to be raised in this petition, we have issued rule. However, for the reasons stated hereinabove, we are not inclined to grant interim relief. In that view of the matter, the prayer for interim relief is rejected. [A.A. SAYED, J.] [B.R. GAVAI, J.] grt/-