1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE, BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.6870 OF 2010 Annasaheb s/o Baban Bhusari & ors. ... PETITIONERS VERSUS The State of Maharashtra & ors. ... RESPONDENTS ..... Shri S.P. Sonpawale, Advocate holding for Shri B.R. Warma, Advocate for the petitioners Shri S.K. Tambe, A.G.P. for respondent No.1. Shri S.T. Shelke, Advocate for respondent Nos.2 to 4 ..... CORAM: P.V. HARDAS & N.D. DESHPANDE, JJ. DATED: 16th August, 2010 PER COURT : 1. This is a petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of Iondia, by which the petitioners seek inclusion of their names in the voters list of village Sonai, Taluka Newasa, District Ahmednagar for the purposes of elections scheduled to be held on 22.8.2010. 2. According to the petitioners, the petitioners are residents of village Sonai and, therefore, their names ought to have been included in the forthcoming elections for the elections of the Village Panchayat of village Sonai. According to the petitioners, their names 2 came to be deleted behind their back without the petitioners making any application. 3. On notice being issued to the respondents, the respondents have filed their affidavit-in-reply and in the affidavit-in- reply, the respondents have stated that the names of the petitioners are included in Village Belhekarwadi, Taluka Newasa, District Ahmednagar. It is further stated that the elections of village Belhekarwadi had already been held and all the candidates have been elected unopposed. It is further stated that, Part No.135 of voters list of 221 Newasa Assembly Constituency was attached to Sonai, Booth No.135 and, therefore, the petitioners are under wrong impression that their names were included for village Sonail. 4. Since the names of the petitioners are already included in village Belhekarwadi, the elections of which have been recently concluded, the reliefs which the petitioners have sought for in this petition cannot be granted. Learned counsel for the petitioner has placed reliance on the judgment of the Division Bench of this Court in Dhondba Adku and another Vs. Civil Judge, Junior Division, Hinganghat and others (AIR 1967 BOMBAY 232 (V 54 C 51) to urge before us that a Panchayat has powers to make correction in the voters list. The ratio of the aforesaid judgment does not, in our 3 opinion, apply to the facts of the present case. For the reasons stated above, we do not see any merits in the petition and the petition is, therefore, summarily dismissed with no order as to costs. (N.D. DESHPANDE, J.) (P.V. HARDAS, J.) fmp/wp6870.10