DIMPAL Vs. RAJESH BALUNI AND ORS.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) By means of present writ petition, the petitioner seeks to issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of certiorari quashing the impugned order dated 22.09.2015, passed by learned District Judge, Dehradun, in Election Petition No. 83 of 2014. Election for the post of Member of Sherpur Ward, Zila Panchayat, Dehradun was held, in which petitioner was declared elected. Aggrieved against the same, an election petition was filed by respondent No. 1, alleging, among other things, that the petitioner was below 21 years of age. The District Judge/Election Tribunal allowed the election petition of respondent No. 1 and declared the election of the petitioner for the post of Member of Sherpur Ward, Zila Panchayat, Dehradun, as void on the ground that she was not eligible to contest the said election being below 21 years of age, and respondent No. 1 was declared elected for the post of Member of Sherpur Ward, Zila Panchayat, Dehradun, vide judgment and order dated 22.09.2015. Aggrieved against the same, present writ petition has been filed by the petitioner.

(2.) Sec. 18 -C of the U.P. Kshettra Panchayats and Zila Panchayats Act, 1961, reads as under:

(3.) After hearing learned counsel for the parties and having gone through the documents brought on record, this Court is seized with the following questions: