CWP No.8940 of 2010 1 IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Civil Writ Petition No.8940 of 2010 (O&M) Date of decision: 19.5.2010 Smt. Poonam Kumari ...Petitioner Versus State of Haryana and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJAN GUPTA Present: Mr. Pritam Saini, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. Deepak Jindal, Deputy Advocate General, Haryana. Mr. Raman B. Garg, Advocate, for respondent No.4. Rajan Gupta, J. (oral) The petitioner has sought a direction to the respondents to allow her to file her nomination to contest the ensuing election of Municipal Committee, Charkhi Dadri. Learned counsel for the petitioner has argued that last date for filing nomination paper for the ensuing municipal election was 7th May, 2010. The petitioner did not file her nomination paper for the reason that she was not aware that the post of President of Municipal Committee, Charkhi Dadri was reserved for women (general). According to learned counsel, reservation was made on 10th May, 2010 and by that time, date of filing nomination was already over. A short reply by way of affidavit of Mahavir Singh, Director, Urban Local Bodies, Haryana has been filed by the State. CWP No.8940 of 2010 2 Learned State counsel has referred to the same and submitted that the petitioner never filled up nomination within the period prescribed and thus, cannot raise any grievance at this stage. I have heard learned counsel for the parties and given careful thought to the facts of the case. Admittedly, the petitioner never filed her nomination paper till the last date fixed for this purpose i.e. 7th May, 2010. Only after post of President of the Municipal Committee was reserved for the category of women (general), she sought to file her nomination paper. However, by that time the period for submitting nomination paper had already expired. Besides, it is inexplicable how reservation for the post of President would have any relevance to claim of the petitioner as she did not even file nomination for the post of Councilor. The petition is not only devoid of merit but totally misconceived. The same is hereby dismissed. (RAJAN GUPTA) JUDGE 19.5.2010 'rajpal'