Rule. Heard forth.

2. The petitioner is a Councillor of the Ahmednagar Municipal Corporation and was also the Chairman of the Standing Council of the Ahmednagar Municipal Corporation. According to the petitioner, the petition has been filed for the purpose of challenging the legality and the validity of the reservations declared by respondent No.3 for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes including seats reserved for women. The petitioner has stated that the basis for reserving the wards for S.C., S.T. and O.B.C, is the respective population of that category in the concerned ward. The formation of wards for the Ahmednagar Municipal Corporation is under progress and as long as the wards are not finalised, it is not possible to determine the population of any ward much less the population of any particular category in that ward. As the very basis of reservation is population of the ward and as the population of the ward is yet to be determined, the reserved wards cannot be determined.

. The petitioner, therefore, by the present petition has sought relief, to quash and set aside the reservations for S.C., S.T., O.B.C., and women as notified by