RAMANAND GAUR Vs. RAM SANEHI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Petitioner before this Court was elected as Pradhan of the village Chutka Gaon as per the results of the elections declared on 28.10.2010. Respondent no. 1 Ram Sanehi, who was the defeated candidate, filed an election petition under Section 12-C of the U.P. Panchayat Raj Act, which was registered as Election Petition No. 1 of 2010.

(2.) The reliefs prayed for in the election petition are as follows:

(3.) The petitioner on service of the notice filed application dated 17th June, 2011 stating therein that the election petition suffers from the vice of non-joinder of necessary party, inasmuch as three other persons, who were candidates in the said election, have not been made a party as required by Rule 3 of the U.P. Panchayat Raj (Settlement of Election Disputes) Rules, 1994. It was, therefore, contended that in absence of necessary parties, the election petition itself was liable to be dismissed.