JUDGMENT - CHANDRACHUD D.Y. (Dr.), J.: - Rule, returnable forthwith. Learned Counsel for the respondents waives service. By consent taken up for hearing and final disposal.

2. The petitioners are elected members of the Gram Panchayat of Chimbli in the Taluka of Khed in the District of Pune. The first respondent in Writ Petition No. 5114 of 2003 is the Sarpanch while the first respondent in companion Writ Petition No. 5115 of 2003 is the Upa Sarpanch. On 25th February, 2003, the petitioners issued a requisition to the Tahsildar, Khed in their capacity as members of the Gram Panchayat proposing to move a motion of no-confidence against the Sarpanch and the Upa Sarpanch. The notice spelt out the reasons on the basis of which the requisitionists had decided to move the motion. Immediately thereafter on 25th February, 2003 the Tahsildar addressed notices to all the members of the Gram Panchayat including the Sarpanch and the Upa Sarpanch recording that a requisition had been received from Shri Panduarang Vishnu Bankar and five other members of the Panchayat for moving a motion of no confidence against the Sarpanch and Upa Sarpanch. The Tahsildar intimated that he had convened a meeting

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