GANPAT SINGH Vs. THE ELECTION TRIBUNAL MAINPURI PRESIDED OVER BY SRI CHHATAR SAL SINGH CIVIL JUDGE AND ORS.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is a petition Under Article 226 of the Constitution.

(2.) THE Petitioner and Respondent Nos. 2 to 5 were candidates for election to the office of Chairman of a Town Area Committee. The election was held on 1610 -1957 and on the following day the second Respondent was declared duly elected. The Petitioner then filed an election petition in which he challenged the validity of the second Respondent's election on a number of grounds. That petition was however dismissed by the Election Tribunal by an order dated 11 -9 -1958, upon the ground that it had not been presented in accordance with law because, first, it had not been presented by the Petitioner in person and secondly, it was not accompanied by a deposit of Rs. 200 as security as required by the rules. The Petitioner then filed the petition which is now before us in which he questions the correctness of the decision of the Tribunal and prays that its order be quashed by a writ of certiorari,

(3.) THE relevant rules under the Act are 47 and 50 which, so far as they are relevant, read thus: