Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta, J.

As it appears from the writ petition, the summary of facts is as under. The writ petitioner and fifth respondent filed nomination to contest Elections for 92-Nalgonda Assembly Constituency. As required under the law, the fifth respondent was to and did file an affidavit disclosing his personal information in Form -26. In the affidavit filed with the Election Officer, the fifth respondent stated, amongst others, his educational qualification as follows:

“Name of the School/University Year Course completed

Chaitanya Bharati Institute of Technology, Hyderabad 1986 (B.E.)”

He also mentioned in the form regarding Highest Educational qualification as under:

Highest Educational qualification:

Name of the School/University Year Course completed

Chaitanya Bharati Institute of Technology, Hyderabad 1986 (B.E.)

The footnote at the place of educational qualifications in the form requires as follows:

“(Give details of highest School/University education with full form of the certificate/diploma/degree course, Name of the School/ College/ University and the year in which the course was completed”).

2. Contention of the writ petitioner is that the afore