NAIK J. - By this writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution the petitioner challenges the order of the Collector of Nasik dated July 13,1978 purporting to have been passed under section 41 (1) of the Bombay Village Panchayats Act, 1958, suspending the petitioner from the office of the Sarpanch of Village Panchayat of Agashkhinde, taluka Sinnar, district Nasik. In the absence of any affidavit in reply being filed, the undisputed facts giving rise to this petition are briefly these: There is a village Panchayat for Agashkhinde village in the Sinnar taluka of the Nasik district constituted under the Bombay Village Panchayats Act, 1958. There are three wards in this village. There are ten numbers elected to the respondent No. 3 Panchayat, out of whom two belonged to the Scheduled Tribes, three belonged to the Harijan community and the remaining five belonged to the other communities. There is a constant rivalry between two groups - One group consisting of the Harijans and the other group consisting of all the other communities put together. The petitioner has been a member, of respondent No.3 Panchayat since the year 1971. He was the Sarpanch in 1971-72 for about nin