(1.) By this writ-application under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the writ-applicants, desirous of contesting election to the Botad District Panchayat, have prayed for the following reliefs :
(2.) The facts giving rise to this writ-application in the words of the writ-applicants themselves, as pleaded in the memorandum of the writ-application, are as under :
(3.) Thus, it appears that the nomination forms of the writ-applicants for the purpose of contesting the ensuing Botad District Panchayat election came to be rejected by the Returning Officer vide order dated 15th February 2021 (Annexure-D collectively). One such order reads thus :