( 1 ) ORDER of the Court Was delivered by the Hon ble Mr. Justice Viswanatha sastiy. This is a petition under Art. 226 of the Constitution for the issue of a writ of Certiorari quashing an order, G. O. Ms. No. 719 (Local Administration) dated 29-7-1954, of the first respondent, the State of Andhra. The second respondent is the Regional Inspector of Municipalities and Local Boards, northern Range, Vijayawada. Purporting to act in exercise of the powers delegated to him by the Inspector of Municipal Councils and Local Boards under Sec. 127 (2) of the Madras Village Panchayats Act of 1950 (hereinafter referred to as the Act ), the second respondent issued a notification under sec. 3 (2) excluding Swarnapalem, a hamlet of Swarna from the Swarna panchayat and including it in the neighbouring Panchayat of Kodavali varipalem. The remaining extent of Swarna, without the hamlet, was constituted as the Swarna Panchayat. On the basis of the extended jurisdiction fixed by the notification of the second respondent, elections to the Panchayat of Kodavalivaripalem were held on 16-2-1954. On the same day the petitioner was also elected President of the Panchayat of Kodavalivaripalem. On 29-7-1954

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