Court No. - 39
Case :- WRIT - C No. - 56645 of 2017 Petitioner :- Chanda Devi @ Chandrawati Devi Respondent :- State Election Commission(Panchayat & Local Bodies) & 2 Ors.
Counsel for Petitioner :- Prem Shankar Kushwaha,Adesh Kumar Kushwaha,Archana Singh Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.
Hon'ble Dilip Gupta,J. Hon'ble Jayant Banerji,J.
This petition has been filed for quashing the election of Sabhasad in Nagar Nigam Kanpur that was held on 22 November 2017.
Learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel appearing for the respondents states that the petitioner has a statutory alternative remedy of filing an election petition under Section 62 of the U.P. Municipalities Corporation Act, 1959.
The petitioner does have a statutory alternative remedy. The Court, therefore, declines to entertain this petition.
The petition is, accordingly, dismissed.
Order Date :- 28.11.2017 NSC (Dilip Gupta, J.) (Jayant Banerji, J.)