69 of 1953.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Petition No.
B. Asthana for respondent No.
1185 C. Isaacs Jai Prasad Agarwal, with him for, the appellant.
May 22.
The petitioners are three residents of Etah in Uttar Pradesh.
P. Sinha R. Patnaik, with him for respondent No.
They companyplain that at the by election to the Municipal Board of Etah held on November 2, 1951, December 8, 1951, and March 17, 1952, at which respondents 4, 11 and 12 were respectively elected, the Petitioners were deprived of their rights to exercise their votes and to seek their election as candidates, as those by elections were held on companymunal lines on the basis of separate electorates companytrary to the provisions of the Constitution.
They also allege that the numberination of respondent 3 as a member of the Board by the Government was an illegal exercise of its powers, as the interest which that respondent was numberinated to represent in the Board was already sufficiently represented.
