KARNAIL KAUR Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) PETITIONER Karnail Kaur has filed this petition for quashing the Resolution dated 23.6.2008 vide which Satnam Kaur-respondent No. 7 has been elected as Chairman of Panchayat Samiti, Bassi Pathana, District Fatehgarh Sahib.

(2.) THE Panchayat Samiti, Bassi Pathana consists of 15 Zones from where one Member for each Zone was elected as per the reservation made by the government as depicted in Annexure P-1. The petitioner was representing Jodhpur Zone which was reserved for Scheduled Caste (Woman).

(3.) IN nutshell, the contention of the counsel for the petitioner is that only those Members of Panchayat Samiti, Bassi Pathana, who have been elected from Jodhpur and Kandipur Zones, which were reserved for the category of Scheduled Caste (Woman), were eligible to contest the election for the office of Chairman, but in the meeting held on 23.6.2008, respondent No. 7, who became Member of Panchayat Samiti, Bassi Pathana from Himmatpura Zone, which was reserved for Woman, has been wrongly elected as Chairman.