1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY, BENCH AT AURANGABAD. WRIT PETITION NO.2429 OF 2010 Nilima d/o Gangadhar Devalwar ..PETITIONER VERSUS The State of Mah. & ors. ..RESPONDENTS Mr V.P. Kadam, Advocate for the petitioner; Mr S.K. Tambe, AGP for respondents no.1 & 3; Mr S.T. Shelke, Advocate for respondent no.2 & 6; Mr R.S. Deshmukh, Advocate for respondent no.5 CORAM : P.V. HARDAS AND S.V. GANGAPURWALA, JJ. DATE : 18th March, 2010 PER COURT : This is a petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India by which the petitioner prays for issuance of a writ for directing the Collector to accept the application of the petitioner and for getting the certificate of the petitioner verified through the Caste Scrutiny Committee. 2. As per the requirement of law, a person desirous of contesting the election is required to submit a certificate six months prior to the declaration of the election for undergoing the process of verification by the Scrutiny Committee. The elections are scheduled to be held somewhere in second week of April, 2010. The petitioner submitted her certificate on 22.2.2010. Obviously the petitioner has not submitted the certificate prior to six months of the declaration of the election. In that light of the matter, the action of the respondents in declining to accept the 2 certificate of the petitioner when tendered on 22.2.2010 cannot be faulted with. Merely because the petitioner had undergone surgery and could not have submitted the certificate is no ground to circumvent the provision of law. Similarly, the fact that the other relatives of the petitioner have been issued with the validity certificate is no ground for permitting the petitioner to contest the election unless the requirement of law is fulfilled. 3. The petition thus being sans merit is, therefore, summarily dismissed with no order as to costs. ( S. V. GANGAPURWALA, J.) ( P. V. HARDAS, J.) amj/wp2429.10