The Ordinance has been replaced by the Presidential and Vice Presidential Elections Amendment Act, 997 Act 35 of 1997.
In Person, P.H. Parekh, Sameer Parekh, Ms. Ruchi Khurana, Parmeswaran, Pallav Shishodia, Subrat Birla, N.K. Kaul, Manoj Wad and A.M. Khanwilkar, Advs.
with them for the appearing parties.
J U D G M E N T The following Judgement of the Court was delivered C. Agarwal, J. This petition has been filed by the petitioner in person.
It has been described as Election Petition cum Writ Petition.
During the companyrse of his submissions before the Court it was pointed out to the petitioner that such a companyposite petition is number maintainable and that the petitioner companyld choose to have the petition treated as an election petition or a writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution.
The validity of Ordinance was challenged before this Court in W.P. C Nos.293/97 and 322/97 which have been dismissed by orders dated June 19, 1997 and July 11,1997 respectively.
The validity of the said Act was challenged in W.P.