Smt.Kunti Devi Raja Koshle v. Chhattisgarh State Election Commission And ORS.

GARH AT OURT OF CHHATTIS

IN THE HON'BLE HIGH C

BI'LASPU C.G.

No.3 W /2015 WRIT PETITION / Smt. Kunti ];evi §aja Koshle, aged 21 about years, ¥Uo Shri. Abhisek PETITIONER:

Koshle, Village-Murdhia, Post Office- Kodva Bani, Thana-Lalpur, Civil and Revenue DistrictMungeli (C.G.)

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Chhattisgarh State Election w'

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Commission, Thru- Secretary, , Near D.K.S Bhavan (Old Mantralaya) Raipur (C.G.) 2.

District Election Officer (Panchayat Election 2015) / Collector , Mungeli, Civil and Revenue District -Munge1i (C.G.) 3.

Returning Officer (Panchayat Election 2015) / Tesildar Civil h and Revenue District-Mungeli (C.G.) / HE CONSTITION CLE 226 OF T OF INDIA WRIT PETITION UNDER ARTI

/ / HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH : BILASPUR W.P.(C) No.361 of 2015 PETITIONER Smt. Kunti Devi Raja Koshle

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RESPONDENTS Chhattisgarh State Election Commission and others Single Bench : Hon'ble Shri Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra Present :- Shri Rituraj Barman,Advocate forthe petitioner.

Shri Adiraj Surana, Dy. GA for the State.

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ORAL ORDER _, (Passed on this 2nd Day of March, 2015) Heard learned counsel for the parties.

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The petitioner is chailenging the result of election of the office of Sarpanch of Gram Panchayat, Khursi; District Mungeli. Petitioner has an alternative remedy of tiling an election petition under Section 122 of the Chhattisgarh Panchayat Raj Adhiniyam, 1993.

In view of the provisions contained under Article 243-0 of the Constitution of india, result of an election to an office of a Panchayat can only be challenged by. way of election petition and jurisdiction of this Court is barred.

For the foregoing, the writ petition is dismissed as not maintainable.

Petitioner may prefer the duly constituted election petition in accordance with law.

Sd//- Prashant Kumar Mishra Judge Kamde